Of furry things and cheap build quality

So I'm relaxing in my recliner tonight only to hear my cats hiss behind me. Not an uncommon occurance, but the fact that they were both staring at my washer made me get out of my chair. A couple of weeks ago I found a opposum in that exact spot when one of my cats did the same thing. Luckily it's right by my back door so I managed to chase him out. $150 vet bill later making sure my cats were up to date on their rabies shots and replacing an access panel behind the washer I thought the problem was solved.

So I get out of my chair and go look, pretty well knowing what I'm going to find and I once again find a opposum behind my washer. I kick the cats into my bedroom and shut the door behind them to keep them out of the way. Open the back door again and try to sweep him out with a broom, but this time he takes off through my house! Cursing rather loudly I chase him into my office to watch him disappear into the hole I had ripped in my sheetrock in there a few months back when I had some plumbing problems. About that time I was wishing for a small caliber fire arm to take care of the problem once and for all, but sadly my .22 is at my dad's place and I decide the 20-guage is probably going to do far too much damage to my house. (Not to mention it's somewhat illegal to discharge a firearm in the city limits.)

Upon further examination I find that there is a giant hole in the floor of my house below the bathtub. Apparently instead of cutting a proper sized hole for the drain pipe, they just made it 2-3 times as big as needed so they didn't have to work very hard. Damned cheap bastards. (I'm going to pause right here to premptively tell Geeon and Kira to refrain from the trailer jokes and jabs, I should have known something like this would happen.) So I found some bookcase shelves I had laying around that I haven't gotten around to putting together and plugged the hole in the wall for the time being. Looks like this weekend involves a trip to the Home Depot to grab some plywood and construction adhesive to fix the hole in the floor. I need to get the wall fixed permanently too, but the lack of a truck to haul a 4'x8' piece of sheetrock means I'm stuck with the temp solution for a while. I'd borrow one, but sadly I don't know anyone around that has one so I have to wait on my dad to come visit.