DALLAS -- Nuts can be fattening. But this little, or rather large, squirrel had to learn the hard way.
Most people who deal with wildlife know that animals usually have a good sense of what nooks and crannies they can fit through. So it seemed a bit odd when the caller to 911 Wildlife, a business that specializes in humane wildlife evictions, kept insisting that a squirrel was stuck in a tree on Sunday, said the company’s owner, Bonnie Bradshaw.
When Ms. Bradshaw dispatched senior wildlife technician Joe Warner to the scene in the 1700 block of East Elmore Avenue in East Oak Cliff, he expected to find a squirrel sitting in a hole with “its head poking out, watching the goofy people.”
Mr. Warner, who has been with the company for about a year, said he responds to squirrel calls on an almost daily basis. But no description had been this bizarre.
Sure enough, there was the squirrel, or half of a squirrel, with its bushy tail and hind legs poking from a hole about 8 feet off the ground.
Mr. Warner got a ladder and a handsaw and began to work. For the next 45 minutes, he carefully sawed around the squirrel, picking away at the tree to create enough room to ease out the critter.
Within seconds of gaining freedom, the squirrel quickly jumped back on the tree and scurried away.
So how did the squirrel get stuck? Too many nuts? Mr. Warner’s theory: the squirrel was pregnant. `
Whatever the cause, he now has a posterior shot for posterity.
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