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Gillard lowered a mop handle into the toilet bowl and the squirrel was able to grab hold and be lifted out.
"Fortunately the squirrel wasn't injured at all and I could release him back into the wild where he belongs," Gillard said. "I think he must have come into this house through the roof and slipped into the toilet."
Gillard said it was a unique call.
"It was certainly one of the most unusual rescues I've ever carried out -- I did rescue a bat stuck in the plughole of a sink last year but I think this one takes the crown!" she said. "I'm sure it's one the squirrel 'walnut' forget in a hurry."