So me and Snacks are toodling around St. ed's.
We are just getting moving again when something hits the ground in the middle of the trail about 10 feet from us. It landed with a pretty good thud.
Took my mind a moment to grasp that it was a squirel and it wasn't moving much. I looked up to see where it might have come from but none of the branches above were moving?
I got a few steps closer and with its one good leg it started kicking real bad. I wasn't sure if it was trying to get away, or if it was just spazing out? Either way it wasn't getting anywhere.
Obviously this thing was done for as the only part of its body that was moving was that one leg.
So what is my responsibility here? I felt like I should have put it out of its misery. Snacks thought we should let it be and let it die a "natural" death. She was also pretty insistent that we get the hell out of there. It was a little spooky with the trees rustling slightly and it just starting to get dark and squirels falling from the sky and what-not.
Snacks take was that it was a squirel that was dying up in a tree anyway and that it just lost its ability to hold on.
I prefer to think it went for one last tree gap and came up ever so short.
Either way, we got the hell out of there.....
We are just getting moving again when something hits the ground in the middle of the trail about 10 feet from us. It landed with a pretty good thud.
Took my mind a moment to grasp that it was a squirel and it wasn't moving much. I looked up to see where it might have come from but none of the branches above were moving?
I got a few steps closer and with its one good leg it started kicking real bad. I wasn't sure if it was trying to get away, or if it was just spazing out? Either way it wasn't getting anywhere.
Obviously this thing was done for as the only part of its body that was moving was that one leg.
So what is my responsibility here? I felt like I should have put it out of its misery. Snacks thought we should let it be and let it die a "natural" death. She was also pretty insistent that we get the hell out of there. It was a little spooky with the trees rustling slightly and it just starting to get dark and squirels falling from the sky and what-not.
Snacks take was that it was a squirel that was dying up in a tree anyway and that it just lost its ability to hold on.
I prefer to think it went for one last tree gap and came up ever so short.
Either way, we got the hell out of there.....