Things I Know I Know: The Adventures of Flat Squirrel

If you don't like sort of gross stories, don't read this one.

I mean it.

So, Billie's medication sort of makes her hungry all the time, which means when we go for walks she's always finding things that lead to remarks like this:

"Ewww, no, drop it right now!"

She's been utterly fascinated with something in my neighbor's yard two houses to the north ever since we moved here. A week or so ago, she finally dug out the fascinating thing--a really dead, really flat squirrel.

I made her drop it and we went on and we didn't walk in that direction for awhile. Until tonight in fact. And tonight when we went that way I kept her close to me and kept an eye out for the flat squirrel and we didn't see it so I figured either animal control or someone else's dog had picked it up. So, we continue our walk and go up one street and over two blocks and are walking south (so we're, like, two and a half blocks from my house) and Billie dives onto the curbing and comes flying up with--ha, ha! you guessed it--the Flat Squirrel.

So, now, we will have to watch out for Flat Squirrel everywhere we go because clearly it's a squirrel that gets around.