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Saturday, September 15, 2001
Michelle and I saw some pretty gripping nature drama this afternoon. I first noticed that something was going on when I glanced out the back window to see a grey squirrel dragging what appeared to be a dead rat across our back porch. As I stood up to get a closer look, I realized that what the squirrel was dragging was actually a smaller baby squirrel. The older squirrel (we'll call her Nina) had in her mouth the tail of younger squirrel (we'll call her Binny). Suddenly, our orange cat T.C. appeared from behind a planter and frightened Nina away. Unfortunately, Binny could not walk or run on her own, either because she was too young, or she had fallen out of tree, or both. But Binny could move her front legs, so she started to crawl towards the backyard, where Nina had run up a tree. I yelled for Michelle so that she could enjoy the theater that was unfolding. We thought that it was curtains for Binny, because T.C. is a seasoned hunter of mice, squirrels, rabbits, and birds. But instead of pouncing on the crippled squirrel, she slowly approached it to check it out; basically, T.C. was giving Binny the once over. At this point, Michelle decided that we were being cruel for not intervening, so after clicking off some pictures with a disposable camera, she walked outside to bring in T.C. Now Binny was all alone, with Nina still afraid to come down from the tree. Michelle thought that we might rescue Binny, but I suggested we stay back to see if Nina would come down to rescue her young. After about 10 minutes, Nina came back for Binny, and started to drag her away, towards a different tree in the back of our yard. Amazingly, Nina had Binny by the tail and was climbing the tree; she made it up about 20 feet, but then dropped Binny. Michelle gasped as if it were the end of the world, but Nina just bounded right back down and picked up Binny and went back up the tree, only to drop her again. I guess that squirrels are built for falls like that. Nina came back, picked up Binny, and they both made it back to the nest without further incident. 0 Comments:
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