hello little animal

One of the native rodentia of Cascadia is something called the mountain beaver, which is a silly name as it neither lives in mountains nor is a beaver. But it does look a little bit like one. We see them around the house occasionally; they're harmless, and tend to hide.

Anyway, we have this retaining wall behind our built-into-the-hillside-cliff house, and at the bottom of that, there's a planter, and somehow one of these little guys got into it and spent about an hour trying to find a way out that didn't involve being exposed to the daylight:


AAAGH I'M GONNA DIE

The cats, of course, loved this action. Eventualy, it made a break for it (video kinda fuzzy):

And then I discovered it has burrowed into the rockery! (Video not at all fuzzy; sorry about the tea-timer noise):

So that was fun. And now I go back to doing the laundry and some client work.

( Quizzies )