The Chase

This is a fragment of my sweet childhood memories

My cousin and me; we loved squirrels
We dreamt of keeping a squirrel as a pet some day
Once while playing outside the house, we noticed a squirrel running in haste
And we saw that the squirrel was carrying its baby in its mouth
We decided to chase them (we were cruel minded .... but not now =))

At last we got an opportunity to catch a baby squirrel ... We ran behind the squirrel ...

Some four five plots and hundred trees later, they climbed on a small tree.
All the way, our dog Tommy was following us
And, we both were already tired
Anyhow we started shaking the tree on which the squirrels were present

Suddenly, the baby squirrel fell down
GULP! ....... Suddenly Tommy leaped and caught the squirrel in his mouth

I didn't know what to do :0
I moved swiftly towards the dog and slapped it ... (PHATAAAAK!!!!)

AAAARgh thappoooo!!!!! ....The dog spat back the squirrel on the floor.

Oh no! the head of the squirrel was turned to one side
We thought it was dead..we felt so sad that the squirrel had to go through all this

I saw Tommy running away with his life and he was peeping from the side of a wall

What to do now?
We touched the squirrel
It appeared stiff (Did the stupid dog kill the squirrel????)
Suddenly, it moved its tail.
Phew! it was alive
But the head still remained twisted (handicapped pet .. we would have to live our life with guilt)
We tried to make its head turn back slowly... suddenly, it bit my cousins finger

He started screaming "Ayyo Ayyooooooooooooooooooooo..................."
The squirrel was adamantly hanging from his hand.. :0

He held its head carefully so that it can remove the teeth...
When its grip loosened we tried to put it in the small sack we were carrying

We noticed a change...
WOAAA! its head became normal

The squirrel looked huge
How come? (it is supposed to be a baby....)
Its front teeth was so big and sharp... (err..birk :0) ( or was it a big squirrel with Down's syndrome???)

A series of confused err's and birk's followed????!!!

Then we realised the hard truth...

WE CAUGHT THE MOTHER SQUIRREL :(

We released the Mommy back into the wild...
We couldn't bear the babies cries from some other tree

This was the last time we attempted to catch a squirrel..

The baby cries stopped.. phew! it met its mom :)

We saw some one peeping near a tree.... it was Tommy! :D (peeping tommy :P)
(Tommy was back after recovery from the slap and in action, but hesitant to join us.. SLAPPY BLUES)