More squirrel news...

Friday, July 13, 2007 Filed in: Completely irrelevant, Humor
So, last evening - a hot, sticky Oregon evening - my wife and I were sitting under the maple tree eating dinner. A squirrel suddenly darted across the street, heading for a tree on the other side.

In and of itself, this is not unusual. There are a lot of squirrels in our neighborhood, and if you spend more than a few minutes outside you'll see numerous such rodent dashes.

What happened next, however, was unusual. Hot on the squirrel's heels (do they have heels?) was, not a dog or cat, but our neighbor's teenage son. He chased the squirrel across the street and into the tree; a minute or so later he dropped out of the tree carrying the squirrel by the scruff of the neck!

How he managed to chase the little beast down, let alone actually grab it without getting bitten, is a mystery. He showed the furry trinket to his friends, tickled its tummy a bit, and gently let it go back up a tree.

Believe it, or not.

-=[ Grant ]=-
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