Bud, Keeping The Critters Away From My Studio

I was in my studio working when I heard the thumping and bumping.

When we first moved to the farm,  our barn cat Minnie found the hole in the foundation of my studio.  She used it as a doorway to the crawl space where she would sleep.  I could hear her snoring.  And my dog at the time, Frieda, would sniff  and whine at the floor boards where Minnie was.

One fall I found Frieda playing with a dead woodchuck.   He tried to make his winter home under my studio.

I blocked up the hole with bricks last fall, when I put those bags full of leaves around my foundation as insulation.   It was letting a lot of cold air in over the years.

Today Bud pulled those bricks out of the hole and was halfway under my studio when I found him. (The hole is a little too small for him to fit through)  At first I told him to stop and leave what ever it was he was hunting alone.

But then I thought better of it.

Two years ago I had a mouse living in the wall of my studio and running through it at night.  I even found the beginnings of a nest in the fabric on one of my shelves.  I blocked up the obvious holes inside my studio with tin.

But I don’t want a mouse, chipmunk or rat, living in my studio.

So, instead  I said “Good boy Bud. ”  And let him get to it.

If anything is trying to make a winter home in my studio I have a good feeling that it may be thinking twice about it now.