Ground Squirrels Imitate Turtles!

I caught my second gs today, and went about marking him with Amy's help. The marking today didn't go off as smoothly as the process yesterday, minus of course a loose gs..This particular gs didn't want to stick his head out of the end of the bag, he seemed to find the interior much more to his liking. We tried to encourage him; we gripped him behind the mandible and then by the shoulders. He responded to our prodding by sticking his head out...and then sucking his head into his neck rolls like a turtle, making his ears disappear. We ended up pulling him from the bag, and while he twisted and squirmed, I got his ear tags in, and we got him marked..number 10. What a pain!