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Residents of a Californian town are on the verge of a nervous breakdown after a series of animal attacks.
However, the culprits are not the sea lions, sharks or mountain lions you might expect in this part of the world.
Instead, the vicious attacker is an aggressive squirrel.
Residents of San Rafael, about 20 miles north of San Francisco, have begun putting up posters and posting warnings online about an aggressive animal that has left two people injured and hospitalized.
They were warned that at least five people had been attacked by a “very vicious squirrel” that “came out of nowhere”.
The poster depicts a squirrel jumping and emphasizes that the warnings are “not a joke.”
Joan Heblack told local media that she was walking down the street when the creature appeared out of nowhere and attacked her leg.
She said, “He grabbed my leg. His tail flew up here. I thought, 'Get him away from me, get him away!'”
Isabel Campoy was walking in the Lucas Valley area, the same neighborhood as Joan, when she was also attacked by a squirrel.
She said the creature jumped from the ground and rushed towards her face, grabbing her arm and leaving her bleeding.
The local animal protection society said there had been no reports of squirrel attacks since mid-September.
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Lisa Bloch, a volunteer with Marin Humane, said the organization will work with the state to capture the animal if it attacks people again.
She warned: “We've seen this kind of behavior before. It's almost always because someone is feeding the animal.”
Lisa also said that squirrels very rarely get rabies and do not carry it, assuring that those bitten are not at risk of contracting the deadly viral infection.
However, despite this, she recommends that people never feed wild animals, so that they don’t get hungry and come looking for food on their own.
Sourse: metro.co.uk
