Ginormously Fat Rodents
Dallas, Texas has reported the first sighting of really rotund rodents in the area. Unfortunately, they also rescued the obese squirrel, freeing it to continue its mission for the Animal Uprising™.
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. (Ed Note: Picture at link is hysterical.)
Warner says that he thinks the squirrel was pregnant, hence the cork-in-bottle effect. Our informant tell us that the squirrel was carrying the next generation of oversized tree rats that will soon be loosed on Texas. Then the nice men came to take him away before he could tell us the rest. (They were looking at us funny, too. We're not sure what that was all about.)
By Dan Bonachea, Friday, 2 March , 2007 @ 11:18 am
Would that make this a Rodent Of Unusual Size (ROUS)?