So I'm sitting here reading TCS this morning, and all of a sudden I hear this weird noise coming from my bathroom, like someone is fiddling with the security gate on my window (the bathroom window opens onto the fire escape). I jump up and run in there (probably not the smartest move--good thing it wasn't a crazy guy with a gun or something) and there is this big fat SQUIRREL chewing a hole through my screen. He is so engrossed in what he is doing, he doesn't even notice Nathan standing there on the corner of the sink getting ready to leap onto the window sill. So I put my arm around Nathan to keep him from jumping (the sill is way too narrow for him, that leap would only have ended badly...) and I yell at the squirrel, "Shoo!" Well, the squirrel pauses, looks at me...and goes right back to chewing through my screen! The nerve of him!
Now I'm getting indignant. So I yell, "Hey you!" The squirrel looks at me again, but this time he notices Nathan, who is straining to get to him and has this like, "Let me at 'em" look on his face. And the squirrel actually looked like he stopped and thought about whether to run away. It was like he was thinking, "Well, let's see, I'm a pretty big squirrel, maybe I could take that cat."
So I loosened my grip on Nathan a little and he kind of stretched his neck forward and the squirrel I guess decided it wasn't worth it, because he took off. Good grief! He was like Super Squirrel or something! He chewed like a 2 1/2 inch hole in my window screen! I shut the window right away after the squirrel ran.
All I can say is, thank god this happened today and not tomorrow--we are going away for a few days, and if there had been no one here, that squirrel would have chewed a hole big enough to come in, and I shudder to think...
All I can say is, thank god this happened today and not tomorrow--we are going away for a few days, and if there had been no one here, that squirrel would have chewed a hole big enough to come in, and I shudder to think...