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And then there were four....
On Thursday morning, when the ducklings came out there were only six of them. I wasn't sure how many had gone to bed, so we figured that a cat or crow must have got one of them on Wednesday.
On Friday morning, there were only five. Mike then spent an hour or so with a crow-bar, pulling off the panelling around the walls of their house, and finding two somewhat eaten bodies in the process.
Our best guess is that a rat was going behind the panelling outside their house and then coming out again inside. After we'd headed off to Eastercon, the sitter stuffed various bits of wood into the gap, and we crossed our fingers. Another one vanished on Sunday night, after which some bricks were added to the mix, and so we came home to ducklings reduced in number but significantly increased in size:
A job for tomorrow is going to be a more sturdy fix, which will hopefully make sure we don't have anything similar again.
(There are many jobs for tomorrow. Those tomatoes are going to have to go out to the polytunnel, for a start.)
Eastercon went well, but we are now very very tired.
On Friday morning, there were only five. Mike then spent an hour or so with a crow-bar, pulling off the panelling around the walls of their house, and finding two somewhat eaten bodies in the process.
Our best guess is that a rat was going behind the panelling outside their house and then coming out again inside. After we'd headed off to Eastercon, the sitter stuffed various bits of wood into the gap, and we crossed our fingers. Another one vanished on Sunday night, after which some bricks were added to the mix, and so we came home to ducklings reduced in number but significantly increased in size:
A job for tomorrow is going to be a more sturdy fix, which will hopefully make sure we don't have anything similar again.
(There are many jobs for tomorrow. Those tomatoes are going to have to go out to the polytunnel, for a start.)
Eastercon went well, but we are now very very tired.
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Good luck with the sturdier fix.
Teddy
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Sleep well.
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