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This definitely has nothing to do with wine making.
About a month ago, my dog started alerting on something under my cabin. It got to the point she would wake me up at 2 am, growling and barking! She even tried to claw through the floor to get at the "guest".
Since a momma skunk had a litter of 3 under the barn, I thought it was probably one of the young skunks.
I keep a garbage pail under the kitchen sink. There is also a sizable hole around the water pipes where a frozen pipe had to be repaired previously. The hole is about 8" x 6". We (dog and me) heard something trying to get into the garbage. Ah! Mice! I opened the cupboard and found the 5 gallon garbage pail laying on its side with half the plastic liner pulled down through the hole in the floor. BIG freakin' mouse!
So tonight, figuring I'd roust the skunk, I went down in my root cellar, which is under half the cabin. I started shining the flashlight around, expecting to see junior skunk off in a corner somewhere. Holy Crap! There's a stepped bank under the cabin, and it looked like I had a portal to the Underworld there! Some "thing" has dug a burrow big enough to house a full grown badger!
So now I have something living in a basement of their own making under my cabin, and my cabin is filled with the wonderful aroma of Naphthalene. Oh, joy!
About a month ago, my dog started alerting on something under my cabin. It got to the point she would wake me up at 2 am, growling and barking! She even tried to claw through the floor to get at the "guest".
Since a momma skunk had a litter of 3 under the barn, I thought it was probably one of the young skunks.
I keep a garbage pail under the kitchen sink. There is also a sizable hole around the water pipes where a frozen pipe had to be repaired previously. The hole is about 8" x 6". We (dog and me) heard something trying to get into the garbage. Ah! Mice! I opened the cupboard and found the 5 gallon garbage pail laying on its side with half the plastic liner pulled down through the hole in the floor. BIG freakin' mouse!
So tonight, figuring I'd roust the skunk, I went down in my root cellar, which is under half the cabin. I started shining the flashlight around, expecting to see junior skunk off in a corner somewhere. Holy Crap! There's a stepped bank under the cabin, and it looked like I had a portal to the Underworld there! Some "thing" has dug a burrow big enough to house a full grown badger!
So now I have something living in a basement of their own making under my cabin, and my cabin is filled with the wonderful aroma of Naphthalene. Oh, joy!
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