I don't know much about squirrel so I wanted some input. Yesterday my husband was getting the mail when he heard some commotion. When he got closer to the house he saw a squirrel in attack mode--apparently the critter was trying to take on the neighbor's cat.
The cat freaked and ran to it's house. The squirrel then seemed to focus on my husband who was capturing this on his cell camera. The squirrel was moving from limb to limb with its back hunched, tail flailing and it was making horrible noises (not really growls, but definitely hostile sounding).
Here's what I'm concerned about--I'm not used to seeing squirrels act like this--I've seen them run away when faced by a predator, and definitely when faced with a human.
Is this typical? Is this a possible rabid squirrel? If this is something dangerous, what should we do next?
Thanks in advance...
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Originally Posted by CenTexDave
You can't just shoot everything!Well on second thought,you could,I guess.But this squirrel is just acting territorial,he is quite harmless and will stop this behavior soon.It could be a mamasquirrel with babys or maybe a territorial male(all bark and no bite, just like a male
There are several of them on my property and nobody has ever been attacked or mauled,but ever so often the cat brings home a headless squirrelbody just to show it off.
