Permanent squid

[Opossummom]

Any squid I've dropped remains a permanent fixture, you CANNOT pick it up even though it shows the prompt. It first happened outside my house in the first few days I was playing the game. I just figured it was a visual glitch but it hasn't gone away. It has now happened again inside Remy's restaurant after hours of play time. W H Y ? ? ?

[Jellie Juice]

Yup. Same happened to me with two squid.

[GrailQuest]

If it is in an area you can dig, a workaround is to dig the tile the squid is on. That should cause the squid to automatically be picked up.
You should also be able to move the squid around in Furniture mode, so if it's not in a place you can dig, move to somewhere you can dig.

[Opossummom]

unfortunately that hasn't worked, and the other one is inside the building (not even my house) so I can't move it at all

[GrailQuest]

Originally posted by Opossummom:

unfortunately that hasn't worked, and the other one is inside the building (not even my house) so I can't move it at all

Hmm maybe they hotfixed something because the digging workaround worked for me when I had a squid in mythopia.
Is it not letting you dig at all? Whenever you are digging, if it would collide with an object you can pick up, that object gets picked up. maybe try it on other objects and see if digging causes them to be picked up.
Not sure where your squid would sit if you dug a gardening plot right under it.

[plop]

I had the same issue with the squid. It worked when I used the ancient vacuum outside.

[Missblue]

I dropped a squid inside my house, nothing has worked to remove it