Posted on 05/19/2016 5:48:27 PM PDT by aomagrat
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – The Nuisance Wildlife Agency continued to search for a possible rabid squirrel that attacked some residents Tuesday afternoon in North Myrtle Beach.
According to incident reports from the North Myrtle Beach Department of Public Safety, law enforcement responded to a home on Causey Drive, where a woman said a squirrel attacked her while she was walking to her car.
Responding officers indicated the woman showed them scratch marks on her right arm and upper back, the report stated.
A little more than an hour later, officers were sent to a Watson Drive address. There, they spoke with a man who said a squirrel climbed up the front of his truck trying to get to his granddaughter, according to the report.
The man said the squirrel then jumped on him and bit his hand. During the struggle, he fell to the ground and scraped his elbow, the report stated.
Russell Cavender, also known as the “Snake Chaser,” informed the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and said he would try to capture the animal.
Police also contacted DHEC and asked the agency to send flyers to be distributed throughout the neighborhood warning residents of a possible rabid squirrel, the report stated.
If the animal is captured, DHEC requested it be sent to Columbia for rabies testing.
I find this funny, but I shouldn’t.
There has never been a confirmed case of a rabid squirrel. What people think of as rabid is just the squirrel being territorial.
Yes, but there’s a first time for everything.
Former President Carter just felt a chill, had a flashback.
That could be really nasty what with the squirrel population.
It would spread like wildfire.
Not to worry, Glenn Beck is squirrely but I doubt he’s rabid.
Would bring an entirely new dimension to ... “Look, a squirrel!”
I hate squirrels. All squirrels must die.
EXTERMINATE THE SPECIES!!!
I want to drive the fuzzy-tailed little rats before my bicycle, hear the lamentations of their women.
Squirrels can be very confrontational, there’s one of my backyard that I have exchanged expletives with but so far no fight yet. I cut down his favorite tree so he doesn’t come around as much anymore.
Yes you should. This narrative has "cult classic" written all over it.
Now that is funny!
Perhaps you should have found out if your squirrel is, by any chance, a MUSLIM.
Everyone seems to be on edge, lately. Even in the animal kingdom.
We trapped a squirrel in a Have a Heart trap once time and the trap was placed next to the fence that borders our neighbors yard.
They had a big dog at the time and the dog was on one side of the fence barking at the squirrel on the other side of the fence.
The squirrel was in the trap running around as much as it could, grabbing the wires the trap, shaking the trap, and hissing and screeching back at the dog at the top of its little squirrel lungs..
We covered the trap and moved it to calm it down.
That was one really pissed off squirrel.
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