Weird squirrels ?

mete

mete

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Today I saw a strange sight , a squirrel , grey but with a blonde tail !! Never heard of such a thing .We have greys here with an occasional black but never a two tone . Possible color variation or was it spendin gtime near a hair dresser ?
 
I have fox squirrels that have crossed with grays. Some have really strange color combinations.
 
I also had fox grey hybrids about five years ago. They were big grey and aggressive . They controlled the feeder.
 
Head and body grey , tail totally blond !

I asked this on another forum and a UK member said he found a few of the blonde tailed grey squirrels [imported American greys are displacing the native squirrels]. He's also seen a black tailed fox !
 
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A town near here had dozens of squi-bbits appear one summer. Some kids were live trapping squirrels then using welding gloves to hold them so they could snip off their tails then turning them loose in the city square park. There was a rumor going around that rabbits had crossed with squirrels. Not nice but so it goes in small towns when the sidewalks get rolled up at 8pm each night.
 
In NW Wisconsin in the city of Cumberland I would see the blond coloration in the gray squirrels. I guess I would describe it as piebald. Had not seen any for several years until this past weekend I saw a gray with a blond tail.
 
doc trinidad said:
we have a white squirrel festival near here every year yep there are white ones
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There's a town in Illinois where albino squirrels are common. http://www.ci.olney.il.us/Visitors/WhiteSquirrel.htm

In another town in Illinois where I grew up, it was common to see squirrels without tails. We always speculated that maybe they were being run over or loose cats were getting them. But I haven't seen it anywhere else, and there were no more cars or cats in that town than anywhere else I've lived...
 
Bob W said:
In another town in Illinois where I grew up, it was common to see squirrels without tails. We always speculated that maybe they were being run over or loose cats were getting them. But I haven't seen it anywhere else, and there were no more cars or cats in that town than anywhere else I've lived...
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Squi-bbits, you have rabbits that have jumped squirrels. Mutant strain...run for your lives!!!!
 
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