28th

Dear Diary, this has been a really rough week. I thought this trapping thing would be such an easy add on to my business but here it is the end of the week and I’m exhausted. As if the the squirrels bats and raccoon I chased around this week wasn’t enough. The outrageous expectations of the homeowners caught me completely by surprise. Sure I’m use to people squawking over a few roaches but c’mon! Just today I spent 3 hours on a hot baking roof excluding squirrels by re-screening 4 antique attic fans. Of course this was after hearing my client complain that my next day response time wasn’t good enough. I then got the hour long ‘run down’ of every time she heard a noise, where she thought it was, where I should look and GOD FORBID DON’T KILL THE INNOCENT LITTLE THING! So I thought I constructed an ingenious way to trap her stubborn squirrel but she thought it should have worked in the first 5 minutes. This day just capped the week off- Man! I’m seriously wondering if I wanna go ahead with more of this next week. I guess I should have figured it wasn’t all glamourous and easy like it appears on all those reality shows; I should have known something was up with that first job this week that got the whole ball rolling. I knew that dead squirrel was trying to tell me something.

22nd

Dear diary, I’m so excited I finally got a trapping job! I’ve always wanted to make the easy money trappers make

and this is gonna be a piece of cake catching one measly little ol squirrel. I got my traps and I’m on my way-Big Bucks here I come!$$

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Geesh! There aren’t a whole lot of signs where this RATs been-Aren’t these things rodents anyways? Why don’t they act like one? Oh well-I’ll be back in a few days and there ain’t no way that little sucker can resist my granola bar. ……………………………………………………………………………………………..
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23rd

Dear diary- I was up kinda late last night getting some pointers on the A&E channel but my favorite show must have been cancelled because I haven’t seen it on in awhile. I want to search the internet and see if I can get some really thick gloves. I didn’t realize sometimes you have to grab these animals. There was NO WAY I was

gonna grab that raccoon in that dumpster today. He looked tired and wet and in no mood for me. I thought my ‘ramp idea’ was a good one but the freakin owner of the business wanted me to GRAB the thing and take him out to the forrest by the scruff of his neck. I hope it doesn’t come back cause that job will be for free, AFTER he gets done yelling at me (again).

Well, I was impressed with myself anyway, but I sure got humbled a bit when I went back to my squirrel job. I took those granola bars right out of my own lunch and they didn’t even ‘sniff’ the trap. Another 30 minutes in that attic just to appease the nervous housewife and my BIG FAT MOUTH said I’ll be back again tomorrow just because I didn’t catch the darn thing yet. Can’t I just say one thing and quit volunteering myself for extra work? Oh well, I guess I need to come back anyway cuz my “exclusion work” was anything but! Who knew hardware cloth could be so tricky to put up? I guess it wouldn’t be so bad but that stuff is sharp- I scrathed the heck out of both of my hands and a wire went right under my finger nail! OUCCCCCH!!! That’s it I’m beat, no Billy or American Hoggers for me tonight. I’m going to bed- Hopefully the rest of my week will be much better. See you on the 24th.