I am sorry to report to you that our newest addition to the family, Rocky the Squirrel, has met a sad end. As I reported before, Rocky had suddenly appeared in our laundry room. We didn’t see him at all after my initial sighting of him (her?), though he left many traces of his presence around the floor, and in a just-washed comforter that he nested in.
Then, my husband made the mistake of unloading some laundry out of one basket. There he found the mortal remains of Rocky, who had evidently given up the nest in the comforter for the laundry basket, where he suffocated himself.
We had a short funeral by the garbage can, and did lots and lots more laundry, after getting rid of the comforter. The cats and the dog, who had been behaving strangely around the house in the past couple of days, are returning to normal.
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