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This is one I never thought I'd consider putting in a book for aspirings...
We live out in the country so there is lots of forest land as well as forest critters. Last night arond 1AM our dog wakes us up by letting out a few barks (remember our guests are our in their own cabins so his barking is not a huge deal to anyone other than us). So I quiet him down and then realize there is something out in the woods making some odd sounds .... odd enough that I couldn't wrap my brain around it immediately. Every 20 seconds or so it would let out this loud cry (wav file). I reasoned that it had to be either a small trapped dog, or a fox. Kept going on for 5 minutes, so I decided to go out and venture into the woods to have a look and to try to shut the thing up before it keeps our guests awake all night. I grab the flashlight (yes I always yell at people in scary movies who only go off with a flashlight) and head out the door in my jammies.
Just as I get out the door with my flashlight and focus looking out at the woodsline this furry critter bolts by my legs.... that would be one of my cats who is scared by the noise and desperately wanted in ....startled the crap out of me and now has elevated my heart rate. So I trek out down the road in my jammies with my flashlight into the woods and come upon this fox sitting there just above the creek making his cries. I shine the light on him, he stops. I move the light off him, he lets out another cry....great, some kind of light activated fox
. I puff up myself and stick my arms above my head and make like I am the monster in Bugs Bunny
and shine the light down on me from above my head and he scampers off (I know, poor little fox).
If I was not an innkeeper I either would have put the pillow over my ears and gone back to sleep, or fired a shot in its general direction (not directly at it). But instead I have to go handle it without making any alarming noises myself (I'm using my intuition in reasoning that guests don't like gunshots in the middle of the night). DW and I had a good giggle over it as we sat there in bed trying to get back to sleep. This morning though when trying to keep my eyes open I was not so happy about it. Only one out of three couples heard the fox, and thankfully nobody saw my monster impersonation.
We live out in the country so there is lots of forest land as well as forest critters. Last night arond 1AM our dog wakes us up by letting out a few barks (remember our guests are our in their own cabins so his barking is not a huge deal to anyone other than us). So I quiet him down and then realize there is something out in the woods making some odd sounds .... odd enough that I couldn't wrap my brain around it immediately. Every 20 seconds or so it would let out this loud cry (wav file). I reasoned that it had to be either a small trapped dog, or a fox. Kept going on for 5 minutes, so I decided to go out and venture into the woods to have a look and to try to shut the thing up before it keeps our guests awake all night. I grab the flashlight (yes I always yell at people in scary movies who only go off with a flashlight) and head out the door in my jammies.
Just as I get out the door with my flashlight and focus looking out at the woodsline this furry critter bolts by my legs.... that would be one of my cats who is scared by the noise and desperately wanted in ....startled the crap out of me and now has elevated my heart rate. So I trek out down the road in my jammies with my flashlight into the woods and come upon this fox sitting there just above the creek making his cries. I shine the light on him, he stops. I move the light off him, he lets out another cry....great, some kind of light activated fox
If I was not an innkeeper I either would have put the pillow over my ears and gone back to sleep, or fired a shot in its general direction (not directly at it). But instead I have to go handle it without making any alarming noises myself (I'm using my intuition in reasoning that guests don't like gunshots in the middle of the night). DW and I had a good giggle over it as we sat there in bed trying to get back to sleep. This morning though when trying to keep my eyes open I was not so happy about it. Only one out of three couples heard the fox, and thankfully nobody saw my monster impersonation.
