![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearervia http://bit.ly/2M4PMMj
gehayi:
random-nexus:
Okay, friends and neighbors, I’m writing a Sherlock Holmes canon AU and I need to reference a common critter that might sneak into a house and scurry around making possibly scary sounds that might alarm or unnerve children in the night who are obviously prone to such unnervings.
Problem: I am not familiar with common British critters of that sort. I get a little lost after rats and mice, possibly squirrels, and I’m not even sure hedgehogs would sneak into a house in the first place, no matter how cute they are, but I think you get my drift.
Tell to me, O ye of Brit Crit knowledge, what denizens of the great outdoors is available to creep into a common British country household?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Great_Britain
https://www.britishwildlifecentre.co.uk/planyourvisit/animals.html
https://findingnature.co.uk/animals/
A lot of wildlife in the UK is very shy, I doubt you could get a rabbit or a badger in a house, for example.
If you want an animal of some size that would be curious enough to go in a house, I would suggest a young fox. They’re pretty fearless of humans and regularly forage in our dustbins. It would be easy to imagine one getting in through a kitchen door and going through the rubbish.
gehayi:
random-nexus:
Okay, friends and neighbors, I’m writing a Sherlock Holmes canon AU and I need to reference a common critter that might sneak into a house and scurry around making possibly scary sounds that might alarm or unnerve children in the night who are obviously prone to such unnervings.
Problem: I am not familiar with common British critters of that sort. I get a little lost after rats and mice, possibly squirrels, and I’m not even sure hedgehogs would sneak into a house in the first place, no matter how cute they are, but I think you get my drift.
Tell to me, O ye of Brit Crit knowledge, what denizens of the great outdoors is available to creep into a common British country household?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mammals_of_Great_Britain
https://www.britishwildlifecentre.co.uk/planyourvisit/animals.html
https://findingnature.co.uk/animals/
A lot of wildlife in the UK is very shy, I doubt you could get a rabbit or a badger in a house, for example.
If you want an animal of some size that would be curious enough to go in a house, I would suggest a young fox. They’re pretty fearless of humans and regularly forage in our dustbins. It would be easy to imagine one getting in through a kitchen door and going through the rubbish.