Parking lot hawking

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We barely left the parking lot and had a spectacular chase. 

The denouement of the best single squirrel chase ever. About twenty or thirty minutes. A consistent and unyielding effort on Cisco's part, and a squirrel that was super. I would not have minded its getting away...

Cisco was a solid ounce overweight. He found a dead opossum a couple of days ago and apparently ate some... He also got his field ration. 
Farrah yesterday 

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