Hiya People! This post was originally posted a few minutes ago on my other blog, but i thought i’d share a laugh with you all, so sit back, read and feel free to laugh out loud… this one goes on me ;)

Squirrels are not cute!!!

Infact they bite, and when they do it’s very painful…. A very cute squirrel got into one of our hotelrooms through an open window at lunchtime! The maids were all panicky and so i went up with a waiter to check on the situation. We tried to shoo it out a window but it would always run in a wrong direction until it ran inside a room and we got in and closed the door.

We must have chased the poor thing around the room for at least a good 20 minutes, trying to get it into a cardboardbox or a towel. The little chap started getting tired and slow and when i finally got a grab of him and was screaming “hey, i got him!!” he bit me real hard in two fingers. The blood came running real quick and of course, the tears too…

My mum sent me straight to hospital to get a Tetanos injection and one for Rabies, just in case because you can never know right. So i walked into emergencies with my bloody hands and just blurted out “i just got bit by a squirrel” to a nurse, all the while tears were streaming down because it was painful and swollen! Now can you please imagine one moment how the people looked at me when i told them the story??!! That sounds truly stupid to me, and i think i would have smiled too if somebody came up to me and said he actually got attacked by a squirrel?! The doctor came and looked at the bites and just said “Miss this may look really harmless, but we will still need to get you vaccined against Tetanos and the Rabies!” and i’m like “fine, fire away!”. Nurse gets back and asks me my weight which i give her (by now i am even more embarassed and still crying like a baby). After 10 minutes the doc comes back and says he will have to inject me 12ml of that Rabies thingy into my body, and i’m like “bloody hell thats alot of liquid” and he says well it’s proportional to your weight really, we can’t do less than that….. Injections freak me out, but i usually just close my eyes and get it over with, but this time that was like 7 injections in total?! All this because a squirrel bit me?! No way! The injections were really painful by the way, 2 of em had to be done inside the bites, that hurt big time :(

I’m out of hospital now but need to get back there tomorrow morning so that the doc can check on the bites if there is an infection plus i gotta go back to get more injections against Rabies, like one every couple of days until mid august… That totally bums me, i hate it!

Soooooo children, what do you learn from this??? Do not touch small furry animals that come from the wilderness, ever, even if they look über-cute to you…. Bugger, bugger, bugger!!!!