These things only happen to us.......

So it all began on Wednesday morning when I was looking out into our backyard and saw a strange animal in the grass. From first glance it could be best described as a beaver. I call Todd and he looked outside too, and said, "is that a beaver?" We proceeded to go outside to get a closer look, but the "beaver" ran into the front yard. As we headed toward the front yard, it popped out of no where and charged Todd. He proceeded to pick up a patio chair to apparently beat it to death or something.... That wasn't needed as right before it go to him, it darted away. We followed in the direction that it ran, but it was no where to be found. We have a large wooded area across the street from our home and figured that it must have ran over there.....So we thought that was crazy enough..............
But the story was not over.....Todd and Alexis were on their way to home depot in his truck, when he heard crazy noises coming from the engine. We have been having some issues with the truck, so he figured that something needed fixing. When the arrived at home depot he opened his hood to discover this creatures tail sticking out of his fan belt.... Apparently it had crawled up into his engine before when we had thought it ran away. He didn't want to tell Alexis, because he thought it would freak her out that their was a dead creature, with its tail stuck in the fan belt. So he decided to go into home depot and decide what to do when he was there. Finally, he decided to tell alexis, because he knew he needed to get it out of the engine before they drove home. They went back out to the truck popped open the hood and the creature was gone....he looked high and low, crawled under the truck, but it was gone....couldn't believe this story had gotten even crazier. We went home and searched the internet and found out that the creature had to have been a Marmot...which is crazy because they live in the mountains...not colorado springs...But at least it was gone.
Or so we thought......
Todd checked again that night to make sure that the creature was not there, we stuck some things down in the hood, shook the truck, everything and there was no sign of it. He drove to work on Thursday morning...no problems, no noises... He worked his normal 24 hour shift and was getting ready to leave on Friday morning to come home when he spotted something underneath his truck....

Yes folks, that is a Marmot fetus.....
Todd went in and got the other firefighters to have them figure out what was going on. As they were all standing there discussing....slowly 3 more fetuses dropped out of the truck.....

At this point they had figured out that not only was this Marmot still in his engine, but it was giving birth....After looking around they could see that the mother was still hiding up in the fan....They proceeded to call the dept of wildlife. While they were waiting for them to arrive, one of the guys that Todd works with Josh, decided to put on his bunker gear, and his structure fire gloves and try to remove the Marmot, so that my husband could come home.
After a few scratches and bites, he was able to pull out a very, very angry mother Marmot.


The dept of Wildlife came and picked up mother and babies and are relocating them back to the mountains.. They believe that someone in our neighborhood had recently been camping. This marmot hitched a ride back with them to Colorado springs, and then decided to make a home in my husbands truck and give birth....
There you have it folks....these things only happen to us!!!