A Squirrelly Situation by Jacqueline Kelly

Author:Jacqueline Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

The only trouble was Thud got it into his head one day to follow his brother up to this perch above the cabinets. He made it about halfway before falling back to earth, almost ending up in the soup pot. (And in case you’re wondering, yes, he did make a really loud thud when he landed.) Cats may be good climbers, but squirrels are really good climbers. Viola shrieked at that, too. There was quite a bit of shrieking in the kitchen that summer.

Then one unfortunate day it was Fluffy’s turn to shriek. Travis went out the back door but didn’t realize Fluffy was following him. The screen door slammed shut on Fluffy’s tail. Fluffy screamed like a screech owl, and I came running. The end of his tail was sticking out sideways at a sickening angle.

“Oh no!” Travis cried, and scooped him up. Fluffy cried out chip-chip-chip in distress. “Callie, help me, what do we do?”

I expected Travis to keel over into a faint at any second. (He was prone to that sort of thing whenever an animal was injured.) But there was no visible blood, so he managed to stay upright.

“Put him in his basket and keep him there. I’ll get the first aid kit.”

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