KENNEBEC JOURNAL • May 27, 2020
When battles with wild critters move into the home, things can get ugly. I’m not just talking about mice, although we’ve done battle with plenty of them. My mouse stomping record is eight, in a two-week period. After getting educated to the benefits bats bring to the neighborhood, I started catching them in a long-handled fishing net, and gently releasing them outside. Then there were the snakes, red squirrels, raccoons and a rabid fox. Choosing to live in and around our homes in rural Maine, we must expect, occasionally, that these wild critters will like our homes. Some we can live with. Some not so much. ~ George Smith