I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.> and discovered the pattern, then dug around in the router settings to see what had changed. Disabling parental controls sorted it and I can now see the squirrel/chipmunk/unidentified rodent.
Lesson learned: just use a VPN.
> I visited some other black listed sites <.< >.>
Is that an ASCII representation of what I think it is? (a well known .cx site)
It was shifty eyes. But good imagination skills +1
I saw it as just a 'shifty-eyes' emoticon, but then again I don't know of said .cx-site so I maybe missing it.