What do you get when you combine a senior citizen, a veterinarian, a mansion and a varmint? Chaos and conquest.It was 5 p.m. and I was winding down my clinic day when the phone rang. My client Mrs. Blades addressed me with a tone that was somewhere between embarrassed and angry. She hated to call a veterinarian for such a trivial thing, she said, but she couldn'tstand the thought of having to go to bed with a "furry monster" running all over the place. Seems a squirrel had somehow gotten in the house that morning, and Mrs. Blades had been trying all day to get it back in the yard. Shefigured I could tranquilize it with a dart gun and then let it wake up outside. She told me she would pay whatever I charge for a ranch call if I would come and help her on my way home.
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