sorry, baby squirrel
Nov. 8th, 2003 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilman*sigh* The little squirrel I saw in the fireplace months ago never did make it out, despite my hopes. Discovered this while cleaning up after the new fireplace door installation guy.
I feel like hell now. Poor little starved-to-death baby. And I know getting him safely out would have been difficult and maybe dangerous to me, the way squirrels are even under the best of conditions, and yeah, they can bite through anything and he might have had rabies, and yeah, we did listen for him the next 24 hours and didn't hear anything so it was a reasonable assumption that he got out... but I still feel awful. Not helped by the guy leaving the curled-in-on-itself corpse for me to find and clean up. I understand him thinking 'not my mess' but he could at least have _told_ me. *sigh*
Silly. Just a squirrel. But I hate the thought of anything dying that way. Especially when I could maybe have prevented it by calling the ASPCA and having them try to get him out, and damn the inconvenience to me.
*droop*
The Nature Goddess is not having one of her better moments.
I feel like hell now. Poor little starved-to-death baby. And I know getting him safely out would have been difficult and maybe dangerous to me, the way squirrels are even under the best of conditions, and yeah, they can bite through anything and he might have had rabies, and yeah, we did listen for him the next 24 hours and didn't hear anything so it was a reasonable assumption that he got out... but I still feel awful. Not helped by the guy leaving the curled-in-on-itself corpse for me to find and clean up. I understand him thinking 'not my mess' but he could at least have _told_ me. *sigh*
Silly. Just a squirrel. But I hate the thought of anything dying that way. Especially when I could maybe have prevented it by calling the ASPCA and having them try to get him out, and damn the inconvenience to me.
*droop*
The Nature Goddess is not having one of her better moments.
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Date: 2003-11-08 08:13 pm (UTC)Oh, no. I'm sorry to hear the baby squirrel didn't get out. But you =did= listen for it...and they usually =do= get out, so not calling the ASPCA was reasonable at the time. (Would they have even come out for a squirrel?) Plus if the squirrel wasn't rattling at the door of the fireplace, it seems kind of hard for you to have known it hadn't gotten out.
(sigh)
Feel better. And yeah, the fireplace door guy should have mentioned it in passing, at least.