We saw this squirrel the other night. And she’s carrying one of her kids in her mouth over a thin black power line — tree to tree, in search of better digs.
\nIn her mouth! POWER line! Or…maybe it was a telephone line. But either way, it was crazy.
\nSo she drops the first kid off on a big branch in this new, flush tree, takes a quick breath, and then heads back out to get kid number two.
\nThis time across, she seems wiped out, stumbling dramatically — we gasped! This is thirty feet over the concrete sidewalk. And kid number two is huge. At least half its mother’s size.
\nWell the mom just barely makes it over, but make it over she does. We all cheered! And then back she goes. Step, step, then lying down on the wire, lying down. Embracing that wire, then step, step, oh god I’m so beat stumble. Lie down. Again. Then step. Spent.
\nWe wondered why she didn’t just walk on the sidewalk, nudging them along with her nose? A thin wire? Thirty feet in the air? Why make it so hard on herself? And then we realized Oh yeah. For a squirrel it’s like: “we die on the ground.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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