Post by ttfr on May 19, 2011 15:33:22 GMT -5
So today has been a rough day. I packed my stuff up for work and headed out. Right on my road, I see this squierl curled up. I think...oh it just got hit. But being me, I stop, get out, and go up to pull it off the road. The thing starts to squeal!! I just about jumped out of my pants.
So I did carry him, by the tail, to a tree and stick him on a branch. I was letting nature take her own course whether he makes it or not plus I had to go to work. While going down a ditch, I also proceeded to fall on my but and dirty my BLACK pants with tan mud. HA HA very funny. Here I am trying to do a good deed and I get my butt plastered into the ground.
I leave him on the tree, carefully climb back up the ditch and head out to work. About....lets say 1/2 way up to work, I notice my car is on empty and I didn't bring any gas Cash. CRAP...gotta go back. And curiosity got the best of me as I just HAD to stop and see if the injured tree rat was doing any better. It had only been like 20-30 min since putting him up in the tree.
I find him in the dirt at the bottom of the tree curled up once more. Thinking he had finally died, hadn't I learned once?, I proceed to poke him. Okay... at least I didn't have a stick! The little guy sqeeks a second time and I was sold on helping him. So I pick him up by the tail and stick him on the floor of my car and head on home for the gas money!
My plan of action after that is too stick him in the bathroom tub with a towel while at work. He was bleeding from the head, nose, and his skull was swollen. I was 90% positive he wouldn't make it. But at least now he would be in my bathtub in the dark where he would be able to die without a animal trying to eat him.
Leave for work thinking that when I get back he would be gone and the ferrets will be having a new meal. I didn't want to waste the body!
3-4 hrs pass and I come home expecting a dead rodent in my bathtub. But low and behold this thing is STILL alive! The bleeding has stopped and he is now walking around and a little more active. I was not expecting this little guy to survive but obviously he is a trooper.
Now I am waiting for calls from the wildlife people about this little guy and what to do if he makes it within the next 24 hrs. He went Up hill so mayybbe he will make it.
It's sad that this little guy got hit, but also funny at the fact that things just wouldn't let me leave him on the road.
So I did carry him, by the tail, to a tree and stick him on a branch. I was letting nature take her own course whether he makes it or not plus I had to go to work. While going down a ditch, I also proceeded to fall on my but and dirty my BLACK pants with tan mud. HA HA very funny. Here I am trying to do a good deed and I get my butt plastered into the ground.
I leave him on the tree, carefully climb back up the ditch and head out to work. About....lets say 1/2 way up to work, I notice my car is on empty and I didn't bring any gas Cash. CRAP...gotta go back. And curiosity got the best of me as I just HAD to stop and see if the injured tree rat was doing any better. It had only been like 20-30 min since putting him up in the tree.
I find him in the dirt at the bottom of the tree curled up once more. Thinking he had finally died, hadn't I learned once?, I proceed to poke him. Okay... at least I didn't have a stick! The little guy sqeeks a second time and I was sold on helping him. So I pick him up by the tail and stick him on the floor of my car and head on home for the gas money!
My plan of action after that is too stick him in the bathroom tub with a towel while at work. He was bleeding from the head, nose, and his skull was swollen. I was 90% positive he wouldn't make it. But at least now he would be in my bathtub in the dark where he would be able to die without a animal trying to eat him.
Leave for work thinking that when I get back he would be gone and the ferrets will be having a new meal. I didn't want to waste the body!
3-4 hrs pass and I come home expecting a dead rodent in my bathtub. But low and behold this thing is STILL alive! The bleeding has stopped and he is now walking around and a little more active. I was not expecting this little guy to survive but obviously he is a trooper.
Now I am waiting for calls from the wildlife people about this little guy and what to do if he makes it within the next 24 hrs. He went Up hill so mayybbe he will make it.
It's sad that this little guy got hit, but also funny at the fact that things just wouldn't let me leave him on the road.
Little bugger!
Watch out for parasites though!
