“Kind of like a wood pecker, pecks, pecks, pecks. It’s like just squeaking wood all night long,” said Shannon White, a Northland homeowner forced to live with a family of beavers just beyond her back yard.
Squeaking wood has chased this otherwise obviously very tolerant family around the bend. It’s not as if any problem that has bothered them for a year and a half would be worthy of a google search for solutions or anything! Squeak, squeak, squeak! They can hardly hear themselves think! How can they possibly cope?
I can’t tell you how many times we’re down at the dam and troubled by loud squeaking noises. (As in I can’t tell you how often because it has never happened.) (Because beavers don’t MAKE squeaking noises and the wood they chew or build with doesn’t make squeaking noises either). Often we hear chewing noises. Did you mean chewing noises? Do you think they’re saying ‘squeaking’ because of the compelling rat imagery? And if beavers are rodents and rats are rodents beavers must therefore squeak? 
I’m especially fond of the young naturalist’s comments that they’re burdened with ALL THESE FROGS because of the lousy dam. And more frogs mean more snakes! This is a new way to look at the biodiversity burden of beaver dams! And more mosquitoes which are obviously going to cause West Nile Virus! Oh no, I hope you don’t end up getting more fish and birds drawn to your quite little drainage ditch! That would be horrible!
And to think, before all these rodents moved in it was such a nice ditch!
