Dirty Little Ground Squirrel

We went camping at Georgetown Lake a couple weeks ago which was so beautiful, but that's not the reason for my story. I could write many things about how wonderful Georgetown Lake was but I will choose to write about the dirty, little ground squirrel. (don't worry, it's shorter than the mouse story, i think. what's with us and rodents!!!)

I don't know if this was the culprit or not because there were probably a dozen of them around.

My story begins with Abby falling asleep on my dad's lap and when he went to lay her down in the tent, her sandals fell off and me being lazy just left them on the ground all night. The next morning, Abby woke up and wanted to go outside but I wouldn't let her until she had her sandals on. I went to get her sandals and ,you guessed it, one was missing. I looked around the camp and all over in the tent and others looked all over the camp ground but there was no sandal. Oh well, I thought, there's nothing I can do about it and I had brought a spare set anyway. I figured it was the dirty, little ground squirrels but I had no proof. Life went on and later that day Wendy was sitting at the picnic table and looked up. There was the sandal!! It was pretty much in our campsite and as we went to investigate, we discovered that it was right by a squirrel hole and this was the result. (the pictures not very good but hopefully you get the idea from the chunk missing!)

We know now that it was the dirty, little ground squirrel, but what had this poor shoe been through!! It was obviously not very tasty and was rejected from the dirty, little ground squirrel society but had it been in the hole and then kicked out or did the dirty, little ground squirrel return it to our camp but purposely put it next to a hole to frame another dirty, little ground squirrel!! We will never know. :)