I Saved a Mole

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My dog was digging at the foundation of the house and I was on the other side also digging (in a different way) when he started running around me. I wondered what was going on and stood up. Then a big mole darted out from under where I was kneeling and the dog went after it. I held him back because though I encourage the hunt the thing reminded me of a guinea pig pet I had once, and it's bad for dogs to eat moles. Anyhow, the bigger reason was that the mole came to me for help, and I wasn't going to let it down. So I distracting the dog, I grabbed the bucket I was using for sod pieces and flipped the mole into it. After that the dog was distracted by other things (trying to find where the mole went). Later I released the mole back into the wild and by then it had recovered enough that it ran away.