spencerin
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# Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:57pm - Edited by: spencerin
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I bought my white pine cabin a few months ago. I didn't realize it at the time (because the wood was only stained), but I came to later realize that some animal was either chewing the wood or the builder purposely filed down parts of the wood to make the cabin look more rustic. The damage was strictly found on the wood corners underhanging the roof (i.e. not at ground level or anywhere else), but the damage was pretty extensive cosmetically on some corners. I've since painted the cabin, and I've had some chew marks continue where they originally were.....but they are pretty shallow, like just barely enough to take the paint off, and sometimes just like little pock marks, not to the extent of what they were.
When I was last there, I happened to hear what sounded like a chipmunk chirping at me from the inside of the low edge of an overhang (like he was chirping at me to stay away!). I lightly banged at the end of the roof with a stick I could hear the animal scurrying around inside the roof. I have a tin corrugated roof, and the entrance right there is maybe 1" by 2", no more.....I could barely stick two fingers in the gap.
So, I doubt a squirrel could fit in there, and squirrels don't chirp..... definitely sounded like a chipmunk to me. Chipmunks are rodents and need to file their teeth down sometimes, and I can see a chipmunk chewing on my cabin to do that. But, I don't know chipmunks to be climbers and to hang upside down to chew. But, nature has a way of doing its own thing. Can anybody tell me if this sounds like a chipmunk?
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