about six weeks ago we discovered something had gotten up in our roof and i wondered about how you remove a critter from an inaccessible section of a roof? i tried plugging the hole with vinegar soaked socks ( didn’t work ). and steel wool pads ( nope ).

i even stapled a long length of window screen around the hole with a metal bar attached thinking if i made it tougher for the critter to get in and out it it would just leave. it just chewed through the screen.

finally, i decided to try the most suggested suggestion given by folks who had said they tried everything else. a “live trap”. i guess i would have tried a live trap to start out, but i couldn’t figure out how to easily rig it to the side of the house given where the hole was in the soffit and fascia and how the trap door mechanism opened and closed.

so, i temporarily turned in my handyman card and had a local fit-it guy come over and put it all together.

and in very short order, we trapped One Very Suprised and Angry Squirrel!

of course, The Girls were Mighty Interested in just what on earth was causing all the racket in the cage. they quickly gathered around clucking loudly, “SOMETHING’S DIFFERENT! SOMETHING’S DIFFERENT!”

i contemplated various ways of disposing of or relocating the squirrel, but in the end i just decided to let him go in our yard. we have hordes of squirrels living in the three 120 foot spruce trees in our backyard.

i mean, he’d probably be grateful and never return to the roof again? right?