We’ve all been there. That moment when waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Right just makes no sense and we decide to forage on our own anyway. Why wait for love to start our lives when we have our own ability to start things? Unfortunately for Beatrix it took her captors 31 days to decide that it wasn’t worth her waiting anymore. During which she lived in concrete blocks covered with plywood, tormented by the sound of rushing water she could never reach. Remember?

Now she’s finally free.

Dam floods area; beaver moved

TULALIP — Beavers are natural engineers, but can be a nuisance if they’re residing in residential or city areas.

This was the case for “Beatrix” a name given to a female North American beaver by the students at Brookeside Elementary, who was flooding the school’s play field with her dams.

But Beatrix was in luck because the “Beaver Bill” and the agreement of the Tulalip Tribes meant that there are government regulations on who can handle and relocate beavers.

“We thought this was a perfect time to relocate this animal and get her to a better place,” Dittbrenner said.

 She was finally captured in July until Aug. 6 she was released into the Skyhomish River.

I guess they thought a month in concrete was long enough. Or that they were nearing the deadline of when a beaver would have enough time to create a food cache before winter. Remember how the last article talked about how important it was to find her a mate she liked and introduce the pair to their new home together? Well, the party line has changed now. (Of course the media didn’t glance at the other article and ask why the line changed. Why would they?)

 Before Beatrix was captured, it was revealed that she was a single beaver through wildlife surveillance. Cameras were set up around her beaver lodge to monitor before capture.

 Though Beatrix is without a mate, she is a highly social animal and should be able to pair with a beaver at her new location.

 “They’re just so happy to see another beaver, and take to each other really well,” assistant wildlife supervisor Molly Alves said.

Just to refresh our memories, here’s what the last article said:

Now the rodent, named “Beatrix” by neighbors, waits for the nonprofit Beavers Northwest that captured her to find her a mate.  Pairing up beavers makes it more likely they’ll stay at that spot.

Lucky Beatrix.

Remind me never to be that lucky, okay?

In the interest of fairness I will say that it’s way better to move beavers than to kill them. And that I know these folks want beavers to be living free doing what they do best. But honestly. If you’re going to release her anyway, just do it without the concrete motel 6 stay. Okay? I’m still having nightmares from this footage.

Now that we have THAT out of the way, here’s a fun photo shoot from the Napa beaver pond yesterday. Quite the wildlife corridor wouldn’t you say?