Our new pet...

NOT!

Check out those nails! This dude is in need of a major pedicure!
(Reminds me of Jim Carrey's tonails on Dumb & Dumber)

See the big hole he tore in the screen?

OK, so Sunday night I am sitting at the computer, and directly behind me is the playroom. At this point Rowan was in bed down the hall. I start to hear noises coming from the room, and so I assume Miles has made his way in there to sleep. He does this from time to time. Well, the noise continues, and is getting annoying. I am yelling, "Miles!" Now normally Miles would come out and I would send him on his merry way, but Miles did not come. I began to wonder, "What the?" I head into the room expecting to find Miles balled up on a pillow sleeping, but no. However, the noise continues and I quickly realize it's coming from the window well area. The blinds are down, and there is no way I am peaking cause I didn't know what the heck I was going to find. I get Jon, tell him what has been going on, and he goes to investigate. We slowly pull up the blinds and there in the corner wedged between the glass and the screen is our new friend, the muskrat. I seriously thought he was dead cause he was not moving, but he was just faking it. Well, he wiggles himself out of the ginormous hole he has created in the screen and plops himself on the ground in the window well. At this point I am telling Jon to get the small pellet gun, but there is just something sick and wrong about shooting an animal that's a sitting duck. He did try and scare it off, but with no luck. The next morning he was still sitting on the ground in the corner of the window well. I looked today and can't see him, but I'll know tonight if he really is gone. He seems to like to make all the noise at night. Any suggestions on how to get rid of the varmint if he's still around?