My wife and daughter were strolling through our front yard earlier today when they were startled to find a dead squirrel lying next to one of our trees. We ended up uisng a shovel to place the squirrel inside a cardboard box, closing the box, then placing the box inside a big trash bag, which we’ll put out with the regular trash on Tuesday morning.

It led me to wonder -- with all the squirrels that exist in a typical neighborhood, how come you rarely, if ever, see a dead squirrel lying around (that hasn’t been run over by a car)? In other words, when squirrels die, what usually happens to them? Do they just fall from trees into the bushes and then their bodies just slowly decompose? I would think that squirrels decomposing would create a pretty powerful stench, but usually we don’t come across them too often. Just one of those mysteries of life I guess.