October 19, 2008

• Clickits

  I have never seen a clickit, so I don't really know what they are.

  Since late June or early July, something has been making a clicking noise each time I enter the bathroom. Each clickit clicks just once per visit. The first click is always the loudest and deepest in tone, but it is followed by softer, higher toned, clicks from elsewhere in the bathroom, mostly from inside the bathtub. At first there was only one clickit, then two, now up to seven or so. A family of clickits.

  The alpha clickit usually hides near the door, although sometimes I've heard him calling from near the toilet or from inside the bathtub or near the medicine cabinet. He is usually alone; the clicks that follow his come from some location other than his although the secondary clicks may come from clusters of animals in or near the same location.

  The clickits are on duty each day all day and night. The rest of my family seem not to have noticed them; there have been no comments about clickit invasions so far. The clickits just say "Hello," then remain silent until I leave ... unless the weather is cool.

  The clickits don't seem to appreciate cold weather. Now that Autumn is upon us, they have started to behave differently. Their clicks are higher pitched, shorter and closer together. Sometimes they click several times per visit, each time I move.

  They sound worried.

  If any of you have encountered a similar phenomenon, please let me know what clickits are.

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