I Once Saved a Drowning Squirrel From a Horse Tank With a Hoe...Vanity

1/11/2013 | JouleZ

[JouleZ]

I went out to my garden by the barn and heard splashing in the horse tank. I saw movement and ran to see what the heck was going on when an exhausted squirrel rose up and tried desperately to claw her way out of the metal tank. She couldn't and was swimming in circles.

I grabbed a hoe and after a few failed attempts, got her out. I was afraid to touch her with my hands because of fleas and potential disease. She finally used her teeth to bite the edge of the hoe and I was able to lift her out to safety.

She just laid on the ground, exhausted. Too weak to move but breathing. I was going to leave her there but then my horse came over and tried to stomp her with his hoof. Haflingers do that kind of thing.

Finally, I got her moved out of the horse pen and she laid on the ground for hours before she could move. Finally, off she went. The End.

Well not really. I think she's the same one who comes into the garage to eat dry dog food and crawls up the side of the house and peeks in the window sometimes. The real End.

[QT3.14]

Hey, that’s as nappy-headed hoe!

[fatima]

So it’s an old story JouleZ but an adventure.Dogs are nice.

[JouleZ]

Thank you. :)

[JouleZ]

LOL!

[jospehm20]

They are fun to watch and they keep the dogs amused.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Tubs full of water are for disposing of the tree rats.

[Vendome]

Hey, we don’t like hoes around here....

[ponygirl]

I once saved a little field mouse from a bin full of horse feed. He was pinging his head on the lid, trying to get out. I scooped him up in a feed bucket and set him loose.

Our barn cat, George, ate him. The end.

[Vendome]

You are a good person.

[Vendome]

LOL

[Kirkwood]

Good job!

[JouleZ]

But you didn’t use a hoe so it’s apples and oranges.....;)

[fieldmarshaldj]

Once that angry squirrel started biting that ho, that bitch learned how to walk on water pretty fast.

[ponygirl]

No, it wasn’t apples or oranges. It was a bucket.

[SunTzuWu]

Hmm.. so, a horse tank with a hoe was attacking a drowning squirrel and you saved it..., once?

[ponygirl]

And George gnawed his wee head right off. Then he put him in his mouth, with a leg sticking out each side, and the tail out the front, and *crunch*crunched* him. Then he slurped up the tail like a spaghetti noodle.

True story. But no hoe involved. Except me.

[ALASKA]

oh

[IncPen]

ping

[Girlene]

[roamer_1]

Squirrels are better pan-fried and swimming in brown gravy. Just sayin’.