It is currently 2011.
It involved a squirrel. And a rescue.
You'll just have to take my word on the "great" part.
When I got home from work last night, Roxy was barking erratically in the backyard. At first, I thought it was her usual shenanigans - there are squirrels running across our roof, birds flying overhead, a plane somewhere in the sky. Roxy considers any of these acts to be an invasion of her territory and cause for immediate action.
I promptly yelled at her to calm down and stop barking. She trotted to the backdoor, with a somewhat urgent expression on her face and ran two laps around the living room. I realized she was too hyper to be allowed in the house while Huck was crawling around on the floor, so I let her back outside.
The repetitive barking immediately began again. Huck and I decided to check things out.
Roxy was trotting around a very narrow corner of the yard, pointing her nose in the corner every couple moments. She was barking directly at the corner. Lo and behold, there was something there!
We found little baby girl squirrel, curled up in the leaves. Her eyes weren't even opened yet! We immediately grabbed my phone to send a picture to Mr. B with the question, "can we keep her?!"
I did some quick research on what to do. I made Roxy come inside and gave the momma squirrel some time to reclaim her little girl. Unfortunately, there was no such luck, which might have been a result of the large dog that'd just spent untold hours barking and potentially pawing at the little thing.
I found a local rescue operation (more accurately to say an animal-friendly couple) that would take her. I explained the situation and they said to bring her over as soon as possible. When Mr. B arrived home, we loaded her into a shoebox (it was a heart-wrenching exercise) so that I could take her to the squirrel rehab.
I won't mentioned what Mr. B suggested we do with baby girl squirrel. I'm just glad that I found her first!
*Photo design and editing is contributed to Instragram. Great app!
**Edited: it isn't 2010. It's 2011. Sheesh!
Oh, goodness! She is so cute. I'm glad you found her, and I hope it was in time. I'm hardly ever outside, and when I am its for such a short time, I doubt I'd have found her, much less in time. In that since, glad you have Roxy.
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