Another victim of Rachel Carson.
In our backyard half the squirrels have a large tumor on them and then by Sept it will be gone and healing up. Bot fly. People get it too sometimes.
When I was little I visited my Grandma’s farm .... she handed me some tweezers and a kitten and told me there was a worm in its skull that I needed to pick out as soon as it came up for air. She added, be gentle so it doesn’t break off just ease it out.
I stared at her in disbelief, then peered at the poor kitten as Grandma walked away like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Never knew such parasites existed in what I’d always thought was a pretty normal place. Ticks are one thing, but a worm that bores into a kitten’s skull? That gave me a few nightmares later, but I did get it out in one piece.