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New Species of Animal
Friday, January 20, 2012

We've seen it all - every animal you can imagine. We've gotten so good we can usually identify the type of animal problem a customer has simply by listening to the sounds they're making - until we were stumped a few days ago. A customer was hearing hissing noises coming from inside his child's room, which is never a good thing. When we were called to address the problem our field technician was puzzled after a thorough search of the room, the attic above, and the exterior of the home revealed no animal. The noise was loudest in the child's bedroom and could be distinctly heard every few minutes.

"A possum?," thought our tech. "It kind of sounds like the initial hiss of a snake," he pondered. Yet still, this was unlike any sound he could pinpoint. After a massive inspection of the entire room the suspect was finally found. It's a fast little species. Not too big. And one that you see a lot of around the holidays when children are around - especially little boys. It's a culprit we would never had imagined by the eery hissing sounds it was boasting every few minutes.

What in the heck was it, you ask? It was a toy truck - most likely of the elusive Tonka species. The young boy, had unknowingly left the truck turned on, causing it to spin it's wheels every few minutes - which is what made the hissing sound.

It's not often that we're stumped - but admitting it is half the battle. And after this adventure, we're pretty sure that young boy will have a good story to tell his friends - and a good friend who saved the day.