Maybe they’re right. Maybe the beaver population is recovering.
This was all over the news last night in Massachusetts. Fitchburg Crombys is liks a seven-eleven for the east coast.
No word on why that stunned employee blocked the door so that the mother or older sibling couldn’t escape too. But I’m hoping that they reunited safely on the other side – like we all hope I guess. I do like the idea of the beaver weight triggering the door – and them figuring it out. Sometimes I’ve seen that birds have discovered that if they fly past the censor the doors open and they could get in an out a big home depot to roost, which of course a beaver could never do.
I’m imagining that this store is near the water or on the way to the pond? But its hard to imagine why a beaver would enter. Since the beaver has a younger beaver in tow its obviously not dispersal. Maybe something happened to their home? I doubt the temperatures are cold enough yet for them to be frozen out of the water. Of course everyone is having fun saying he just stopped off for some cigarettes, but we know better.
Beavers would never smoke.
Well, except in the Piegan (Blookfoot) story where the chief of all the beavers is the one that first gives tobacco to the tribe. He kindly teaches the refugee to smoke, perform medicine, sing and dance for the first time and presents him with the most precious beaver bundle.
But other than that, never.
Ahh memories. I was just a slip of a beaver-believing girl when I made that video. Sigh. So long ago. While I was looking for it I found this, which explains so much about our destiny and I just wish it finished telling more of the story.
I guess this has turned out to be video day. So I’m going to share one last glimpse shown to me by our friends at the Beavers in the Netherlands facebook page. Even thought life is full of surprises, beavers are pretty dam mellow.
Our friend Willy De Koning posted this with the following translated message.
You will not believe this; it seems an unlikely story from a children’s book. But it really is! A young fox comes to see what that beaver is all about! Too bad, of the vague quality.
I love that the beaver looks at the stranger and then unflappably gets back to chewing. Beavers are so cool.
