Post #319096 by Aloha John on Mon, Jul 16, 2007 9:08 PM

Aloha-

Sometime over the weekend I had a nocturnal visitor in my tiki lounge (in my patio). It knocked over a hula girl and an Accoutrement mug in order to make room to crap on my shelf. I keep all my low end mugs outside on this shelf unit. OK well I can deal with that. We have had a rat in the backyard before, but not in a while. I have seen a possum going into the yard within the past couple months. Very rarely a stray cat comes through the lounge. No racoons. The poop seemed a bit large for a rat, I was leaning possum.

Well when I went outside this morning I noticed something was wrong right away as a panned my eyes across the lounge. I gulped. Gulp is GONE!

I looked on the ground, there he was, shattered. :( Fortunately he is easily replaceable...OK well scratch that, he is sold out on Tiki Farm, just checked.

So anyway, I can't figure out what the vandal was trying to do or get on the shelf. There is no food out there, just spiders. I can't figure out how it managed to knock Gulp off without knocking the three off the bar too! So since I am not sure what it was I am not sure of what method to persue. I have no problem putting out a rat trap and killing the dirty rat who broke my mug, I apologize to those that tollerate wild tiki mug breaking rats in your patio :wink:. But I can't set up snap traps if it is a possum or cat, that would be bad. And I don't want to put repellant because we let our cat in the lounge from time to time when we are out there.

Hmmmmm....any ideas? Any zoologist/scat analysts on here? I will go add some museum wax to the mugs on the shelf and remove the ones from the bar tonight.

-John

[ Edited by: Aloha John 2007-07-26 20:54 ]

[ Edited by: Aloha John 2007-07-26 21:06 ]