jaylach wrote:
Apparently a little 'peeper frog' hitched a ride on my sweat pants and now is in my apartment.
This reminds me of an incident i went through in the zoo i worked in pre-covid, i can share it now because i no longer work there.
I went in for a nightshift once and there were weird noises coming from behind the cupboards under the 'information' desk where my workstation was, odd scratchings and murmurs... at first i thought it was in my head but i reported it to the visitor services manager and a couple of days later she came back to me telling me that her day staff were also saying there was something in that area... joiners and electricians were called down to have a look to see if they could find out what it was but because they'd have had to dismantle the whole area to get behind the cupboards a decision was made not to dismantle the whole information desk... on speaking to the joiner and electrician i don't believe they believed there was anything there lol
A couple of nights later i was sitting with my feet up on the desk watching the CCTV and nearly fell off my chair... a grey squirrel appeared and as soon as i moved it ran back behind the cupboard! LOL
The poor thing must have been starving and so dehydrated but this went on for another few nights until it must have decided it was now or never... i was by now in the habit of leaving all the building doors open on the zoo side in the hope it would make a run for it, no amount of trying to coax it out helped (laying a food trail etc)... and sure enough it eventually appeared, looked right at me, and made a hasty exit out the building!
I don't know which of us was more relieved, me because i didn't have to listen to it not really knowing what it was, or the squirrel because it got it's freedom!