Armadillos are a common sight in East Texas, but armadillos catching some rays and chillin’ in your pool, well, that’s a little more unusual.
Tammy Anderson of Nacogdoches, Texas, was checking on her sister-in-law’s house while she was away on vacation and found the unexpected visitor in the family’s pool.
She approached the dark shape trepidatiously and recognized it was an armadillo, relaxing on a float in the pool!
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Tammy couldn’t quite believe what she was seeing, so she had her mom come take a look too. Yep, an armadillo.
The two decided to help the creature out of the pool as it appeared the little fella was in no hurry to leave the cool water on the hot summer day. “It’s just chillin, ain’t it?” Tammy’s mother proclaimed in a video she shot of the strange sight.
Kristy West, the sister-in-law and homeowner, shared the photos when she came back from holidays and wrote on Facebook, “Y’all I have to say I have the best sister n law ever …not only does my sister n law help me with all my animals and critters but with the visitors too, that just want to post up, chill in my pool, and not ready to call it a day yet…”
Dolly the dog also was curious about the armadillo visitor rather than suspicious and knew well enough to leave the critter alone. West told the Dodo afterwards that she and her family will welcome the armadillo back, should he decide to cool off in the pool again.
“I would probably just let him chill and see if he could manage to get out on his own,” she said. “[But] we are still wondering how he managed to get on the float like that.”
And wouldn’t you know it, a few years later an (the?) armadillo did return to their pool! Again, the animal took his time to float around and cool off.
Kristy encouraged the armadillo to get out on his own, but when that didn’t happen dad was called in to help.
This time it was their cat, not dog, who was curious about the commotion and came and watched as dad helped fish the armadillo out of the water and “shoo” him on his way.
Another successful rescue of their unlikely pool visitor!
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