Mystery Solved

A few weeks ago we noticed these animal droppings on our front porch. They were too big for a mouse and since Beaumont has voles we thought that might be it. It just seemed strange that a vole would come to our house at night just to poop on our porch. I told Ryan he should just sit out there one night until the mystery animal stopped by for it's nightly poop. He didn't think that sounded like a great idea. I also said we should get a cat to rid us of our supposed vole problem. I have to admit voles kind of freak me out with their pointy teeth and all, so I was all for getting rid of it.

Then I googled vole and they actually aren't that scary. I thought it would be like a rat with pointy, sharp teeth but it actually looks like a hamster. Still, it's poop is annoying, so laters vole. Last night Ryan went outside after dark to enjoy some of our last warm nights on the porch and discovered what was the cause of the nightly poop. He asked me, "Do you really want to know?" Which caused me to freak out even more because I started to think of super creepy things in my mind, like leprechauns or hill people. I told him I did want to know because not knowing was worse. Well, it's a bat. Yep a little bat likes to come to our porch at night to hang out and poop. It isn't a huge deal, I'm not worried about bats as long as they aren't flying in my face or hair or sucking my blood. Mainly it's the amount of feces it leaves on my porch that I find irritating. So we are going to think of a humane way to get our bat to find a new home. Mystery solved.