Officially Friday the 13th

Okay…so being born on the 13th makes me a little supersticious I guess. SO all day today everything was going surprisingly great. I woke up just in time to go to work though my alarm wasn’t set. Then had a really good day at work! I even restored a Sitting Spectral for someone who works there and gave it back to him today so I was feeling pretty good about that too. So anyway, I got home nice and fast and there were no silly drivers for me to curse at. I had a great paycheck from working on the 4th of July. Then I was surprised to see I won the Gold Sitting Spectral and the VF Fledgling jumped in price since the penny it started at this morning. Overall I’m thinking *wow! a great day!*

So yea….my squirrel died while I was at work. Or maybe even while I was sleepling lastnight. He usually always sleeps during the day so it’s normal not to see him in the morning. He’s usually in his hideaway box. It was awful! I was thinking “man buddy, you sure stink!” then I opened his hideaway to clean it and he was sprawled out like he suffered horribly!! I’m so upset! I dont know what on earth could have happened?!?! He was fine the night before last! On top of that it was about 100 degrees for the past 2 days here so you can imagine how awful my house smells right now. I’m thinking maybe the heat was too much for him though I have had him in a somewhat airconditioned area of the house I think the fuse tripped while I was at work because it is really hot & humid in here right now, but it was alot worse earlier in the week. I don’t understand. I feel terrible!

He had a full bowl of water, but I honestly don’t know if he was already dead when I filled it! Plus there is a double water dish up top where he would hang out at night and run around. I remember him being stinky and was like “I have to clean your cage tomorrow buddy” but he stays inside his breeding box all the time unless it’s dark out. He hates to be bothered, but I usually pop the top open just to check on him at least once a day, but I didn’t yesterday! Out of all the days! I remember I was in a big rush. I just gave him his water and filled his bowl and they both look EXACTY the same now as they did when I filled them.

He was a flying squirrel a friend of the family caught in his house. I did some research on him since we debated setting him free, but we found out they aren’t from around here and don’t do well with cold temperatures (which winter was when we got him) We had an old 3 story chinchilla cage and volunteered to take care of him. We figured he was an abandoned pet because he was very nippy. I’ve had him for probably about 6 months or so.

Here’s a picture of him