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Re: Saving a squirrel
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2014, 12:47:05 PM »
sad.  humans can only do so much. :(


They Named Him 'Erwin': Squirrel Dies after Manhole Cover Rescue

SPIEGEL ONLINE International
August 06, 2012

Sometimes life isn't fair. Just hours after he was freed from a manhole cover by German police, a squirrel in northern Germany has succumbed to the stress of the experience. The rodent was apparently exhausted.


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R.I.P. little buddy.

He was thought to be out of the woods, but police have confirmed that a squirrel they freed from a manhole cover on Monday has since died.

A resident in the northern German municipality of Isernhagen, near Hanover, found the rodent dead in her garden. It is thought the animal died of exhaustion just hours after its ordeal. The police officers who initially saved the squirrel dubbed him both "Erwin" and "Gullyver," the latter being a playful reference to where he had been found.

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Re: Saving a squirrel
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2014, 12:49:08 PM »
After hearing frantic shrieks coming from the street on Monday morning, a woman discovered that the creature had lodged its head in the opening of a manhole cover. She called local police, who at first struggled to release it from the unexpected trap, daily Nordhannoversche Zeitung reported.

First, the officers attempted to push the rodent's head back through the manhole cover. Then they pulled the metal disc out and set it upright, while one officer pushed the head and the other pulled the body. When this didn't work either, they applied a bit of olive oil to the furry captive, but still failed to dislodge it, the paper reported.

It was only when it occurred to one of the officers to press the squirrel's ears back that it slipped safely out of its snare. "Erwin" was thought to have been convalescing in a nearby garden, but it wasn't to be.

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Re: Saving a squirrel
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2014, 12:52:07 PM »
Last year another squirrel died after a similar situation in Hamburg. When fire fighters there failed to release that squirrel, they transported it along with the manhole cover to an animal shelter, where they used a metal saw to cut it out. The animal died shortly thereafter, probably from stress.


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Pushing the squirrel's ears back finally did the trick.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/

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Re: Saving a squirrel
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2014, 01:49:26 PM »
...than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

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