Our New Neighbor

About two weeks ago, we started hearing strange noises from the roof or attic at night, but we were not sure where it came from or who made it. It was like "whoo,whoo, whoo...", and also, we could hear walking steps.

By checking the roof, we saw this....a lot of "Golds" on our roof. It should be the way that our new tenant paid for the rent. We didn't want anyone to take away our gold, so we buried it under a fruit tree.

Few days later, we were sure that the noise was from our attic instead of the roof, so Stephen decided to visit our new tenant. The attic was so narrow on the top of our bedroom, so Stephen had to crawl like a worm. I poked my head out to the attic, and both of us saw him: a raccoon! He was hiding on the edge of the roof, and it's too narrow for Stephen to get to, so we couldn't do anything about it.

We called the animal removal service , and a trapper came on Saturday afternoon. He found raccoon's footprints on one of the poles in the backyard.

And he found the hole that might be the door for the raccoon to get into our attic. He set up 2 traps in our backyard, but nothing happened.3 days later, he set up a trap on the roof, but still, nothing happened. We didn't hear the noises in attic anymore, and we believed that our tenant had moved out.

I heard his voice this afternoon, and it didn't seem to come from the attic. I went to the window and found that he's outside of our living room. Ha and I went out, but we missed him. An hour later, he's here again, Hee and I went out and found that he's hiding under the cottage. Tonight, he's here again, Stephen went out, and he ran away. I guessed that we will still see each other very often these days.