squirrel transitional housing

Squirrel Transitional Housing Unit

Free| Studio Loft | Whitter Historic Neighborhood

Features:

5 metal jump posts

extended iron walkway ramp

large wooden balcony

recycled building materials for those eco-concious folk

artist arched doorway

great view 

plenty of room for food storage

insulated heating

wood floors

close to downtown

i am sure upon reading the title, you thought i was trying to random or funny to attract attention. oh no, brace yourself, it's true this post is in all seriousness about squirrel transitional housing. 

upon brandon and i moving into his recently purchased new home, we realized there were already current tenants. a large, fully functioning squirrel community. our roof rafters were their highway system.  aidan was actually particularly happy to be the welcoming crew and possibly their assassin. he could and does spend whole days, watching and attacking the squirrels. but poor aidan grew up with lazy, timid suburban squirrels. he has now met his match with city squirrels. these squirrels have no fear and least of all boundaries. they will get get 5 feet from aidan, dangle from a branch and squeak.  

now there have been enough factors to fix in the house to distract us from the squirrel issue but as winter approaches it has been decided the problem must be solved. 

a beebee gun is an obvious solution, so is plugging up the entry ways. but brandon, who beat and tortured me up with no mercy as a child, has recently become a squirrel humanitarian/activist. he decided that instead of just kicking them out, he would build them a home, conveniently located a few feet from their current one, so as not to leave the squirrels wondering and displaced around the neighborhood.  so brandon spent a whole afternoon and created the above squirrel transitional housing unit, which coincidentally is not the only transitional housing unit in our neighborhood.

now, stay tune to see my post about the wasp hive. . .