Sandy Pushes Beavers Into Pentagon City

Pentagon City is a section of Arlington, VA right across the highway from the Pentagon Office Building. It features a vast skyline of offices and hotels for government contractors. There are also quite a few residential highrises as well as a few scattered homes. It seems that Sandy flooded the Potomac and forced beavers to flee for dry land.

From WTOP here:

Humans aren’t the only ones suffering the effects of superstorm Sandy. The storm apparently forced some beavers out of their habitats and into the streets of Pentagon City.

A few residents who live in a condo complex on S. Hayes Street were about to head out Tuesday morning when they were surprised by a wet, furry visitor.

The residents called animal control upon encountering the beaver scurrying from door to door. Desiree Lomer-Clarke said the animal control worker who came to the scene reported having to deal with two other beavers earlier.

“Apparently their dam broke and they scattered from fear of drowning,” said Lomer-Clarke. “The other beavers were pushed towards bodies of water, but this one had to be trapped and released near its home.”

The displaced beavers were not acting in an erratic manner to suggest they would have rabies — as happened twice this summer during beaver attacks in Fairfax County — so they were released near their homes.

I had no idea my county had a rabid beaver problem. I’ll have to be alert for bad beavers in the future.