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Shivering, adorable, and happily still alive -- look at that tufty fur!
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Title: Adorably Bedraggled Sodden Chipmunk! [September 22, 2008]
Distinguishing Features: Kind of baby proportions yet. The last inch of its tail had no fur at all on it at all!
Notes: I rescued a chipmunk from the pool today.
I was eating my lunch in the back room and saw critter-indicative type ripples in the pool which registered as 'chipmunk' and I bolted outside to help. I think it was one of this years babies - mostly grown but still a bit baby looking. They've been charging around the pool deck all summer and I was hoping I'd be able to save any if they fell in before it was too late. ( There are normally a few critter casualties each year - we've even lost a little snake earlier this summer D: )
Poor thing just pulled itself over to the plants as soon as I had him equal to ground level (He was swimming into the side of the pool closest to the garden so I just lifted him up to the deck with the net). It fidgeted for a moment before settling in to shivering for quite a while. I left it alone but camped out nearby to make sure it'd be okay and nothing terrorized it. Eventually I grabbed my dad's camera so I could use the zoom and not freak it out more by getting too close.
I think it must have been the cold water as much as anything that sent it into shock as he was shivering so hard for a while that all the plants around it were shaking too! I'm glad the sun was nice and warm today. It seems to have recouped fine and scampered off when I offered it a sunflower so I can happily post this and say he was just adorably waterlogged. <3
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