SuperHubby vs. Rocky

We have a little situation at our house ... we have a lot of squirrels that like to stop by and visit. Unfortunately, they tend to hang out in the attic, and this drives SuperHubby absolutely nuts (bad pun intended).

We have 2 separate attics at our house. The previous owners built on an addition, and felt like they needed more attic space, so there are 2 attics with 2 different accesses. It's weird, but we have a lot of storage space, so we can keep way more junk than any family really should.

The attics both have these little vents on the sides of the house, plus one out front, where our furry little friends enter. They then get inside the attic and scamper around and generally make a lot of noise. It's bad when SuperHubby can hear them - which is pretty often.

Now, the vermin don't just sneak into the attic - oh no! - they will hang out on the side of the house and wait for SuperHubby to make eye contact, then they'll snicker at him and creep inside. This drives SuperHubby crazy. And then the war begins.

It's not unlike Caddyshack. If he had a gun, I'm sure he'd be shooting at them. As it is, he will drop everything he's doing and rush up into the attic, outside, or wherever else he thinks he has the advantage, and try to get them out. He has put up a grate but they knock it out. These are smart squirrels.

The exterminator said you can't kill squirrels. I say that's a lot of garbage, just pretend like you didn't know it was a squirrel, and oops - rat poison! But apparently you can get into a lot of trouble for that (who would know?!) and SuperHubby has made it a personal quest to simply have the critters move on. I'm all for death and destruction, but he'd rather just fight with them. Constantly.

It's really pretty funny. We'll be sitting in the house, calmly watching TV, and suddenly SuperHubby will leap to his feet and rush out the front door. He won't come back for hours. The children will start asking when Daddy's coming home. It's sad. But he never catches anything, and they always come back. We don't even have cable anymore -- we've got free entertainment.