Good Morning, Afternoon, Evening, Night!

Happy Bank Holiday (for those of you who have a day off work) and Happy Monday to everyone else.
Another wildlife tale from the garden - one I would prefer not to tell.
Spud just caught a baby squirrel! He wouldn't give it up, every time I tried to take it he'd try to swallow it!
My final ploy involved a bucket and a mangetout pea pod! Whilst I stood on the now very dead squirrel's body, Spud had to choose between the squirrel or the mangetout. WE had a tug-of-war while he tried to swallow the squirrel, realised he couldn't and chose the mangetout instead. Meanwhile, I covered the squirrel with a bucket as I didn't want to touch it. It was only then that I realised that its tail was missing and I can guess where it went!
Dogs can be horrible creatures at times but I'm trying to reconcile this with my dislike for squirrels when they pinch the fruit.

 Guess who had a baby squirrel today?  Ted............and he ate it, all of it. 
However, since it had only part of a tail I think it was the one Spud caught on Monday! I threw that one over the back fence into the brambles, hoping that a creature of some sort would come along and eat it. Unfortunately, that creature was Ted who must have climbed over the wire fence. He lay down, very deliberately, in front of Spud and ate it - Spud was not impressed.