The slippery story of a squirrel, a dumpster, and some butter
This squirrel slipped up. But its journey from stuck-in-a-hole to back-on-the-mend was a relatively smooth one.
Officials from the Animal Rescue League of Boston this week said they were called to an unusual scene involving a fluffy-tailed critter that somehow managed to get its head lodged into an opening at the base of a dumpster in Quincy. It had likely been in search of leftovers and discarded food, but wound up empty-pawed and immobile.
To make matters worse, a Quincy animal control officer tried rubbing oil on the squirrel to get it out. No dice.
Then a well-intentioned samaritan tried to step in and help by lathering up the squirrel with butter to set it free — a common trick practiced on sitcoms (see: “Full House”).
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