#Albino squirrel full#

The consequences of failure are catalogued in the bulky Unsolved Disappearances FolderВ in theВ police stationВ in Queens NY and I didnвЂ™t want to end up as just another Management statistic. Now Fat Tony, as he often reminds me, is a reasonable man but when he gives you a job to do, that job had better get jobbed. Introduced from North America, it is bigger and more adaptable than the native Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris and has displaced the latter from much of its former range. вЂњSnowyвЂќ was of course an Eastern Grey Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis, a cute, but destructive alien invader to British shores. Perhaps the white pelt had already attracted the attention of another predator. I found myself flexing my fingers while I still had that luxury. As the smoke from their Marlboro and from my friendВ mixed thickly in the air, I asked if they had seen a white squirrel, but none of them had seen вЂњ SnowyвЂќ since February. The pall bearers from the crematorium were hiding around the back of theВ incinerator, having a crafty cigarette. Neither she, nor her friend Petra had seen вЂњ SnowyвЂќ, as she called him, for a couple of weeks. I asked Mary, the Bird Lady who comes every week to feed the squirrels and birds at the cemetery, if she knew where to find the squirrel. вЂњ Fat Tony ainвЂ™t gonna like thisвЂќ, I thought. When I arrived there was no sign of the white squirrel. This gave me the excuse to drive the 90 miles (though the black tie with green birding silks caused comment during the commital) and added aВ certain urgency to my step.

Fat Tony became impatient and arranged that someone should need the services of the on-site crematorium. The squirrel lives at Margate Cemetery, about 90 miles round trip from my house, so I had to coincide it with another reason for being thereВ and it would be aВ couple of weeks before I could manage to get back. He had seen MikeвЂ™s white squirrels, but they just werenвЂ™t white enough. Word is that Fat Tony himself made the вЂњrequestвЂќ and Fat Tony has made more bloggers disappear than Google +.

#Albino squirrel full#

Now perhaps the word вЂњsuggestingвЂќ makes it sound like I have a choice and that would be true in the same way that I have a choice to retain full use of my legs or the accepted complement of fingers. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post, The Management wrote to me suggesting that they would like one of those.