So, some number of weeks ago we had heard a scratching sound in some of the kitchen cupboards.\u00c2\u00a0 We suspected mice.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, this cupboard area did not contain any food.\u00c2\u00a0 At one point, a small furry thing was spotted briefly, and the cookbooks in the cupboard then got removed to prevent their being shredded.<\/p>\n
Plans were discussed.\u00c2\u00a0 Traps were purchased.\u00c2\u00a0 Traps did not work – that is, the traps (the live trap kind) were found closed with no rodents in them.\u00c2\u00a0 Soon after the setting of these traps, the noise ceased for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
But then tonight, we heard it again, and opened the cupboard to get a good look at what was creeping around. \u00c2\u00a0 It looked too big to be a mouse.\u00c2\u00a0 Its head was not pointy enough.\u00c2\u00a0 Its tail was not thin and hairless.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, after some googling of images, we discovered that we have a Southern Flying Squirrel<\/a> lurking in our cupboards! So, some number of weeks ago we had heard a scratching sound in some of the kitchen cupboards.\u00c2\u00a0 We suspected mice.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, this cupboard area did not contain any food.\u00c2\u00a0 At one point, a small furry thing was spotted briefly, and the cookbooks in the cupboard then got removed to prevent their being shredded. Plans … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe have yet to actually snap a picture, or figure out what to do about the thing.\u00c2\u00a0 We are finding it bizarre and kind of cool to have such a creature in there, rather than a run-of-the-mill mouse.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, the squirrel probably finds it exceedingly odd that there are people lurking in its ‘tree’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"