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Purple Squirrel Found in Pennsylvania: Wonderful or Worrisome?

SodaHead Fun 2012/02/10 21:24:21
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What would you do if you ever came across a purple squirrel? That may have been a hypothetical question a week ago, but now it's a whole different ball game. Because one couple in central Pennsylvania spotted a purple squirrel in their yard -- and they have pictures to prove it.

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Percy and Connie Emert keep traps in their yard to keep squirrels away from their bird feeders and one day, the couple saw the colorful squirrel. "I thought, 'Nobody's going to believe me," Percy told the Christian Science Monitor.

Since then, a state game warden has come by to the Emert home and taken leftover samples of the squirrel's fir to test. And one curator at the Pittsburgh Zoo says he thinks it may be a gray squirrel with a tint of purple. "... it looked to me like this animal had come in contact with something with its fur and dyed its fur," Henry Kacprzyk said after looking at the picture of the squirrel on his phone.

Whatever the purple squirrel's story is, it's definitely a unique one. Do you think the fact that there's a purple squirrel out there is wonderful -- or worrisome?

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  • brennan 2012/02/11 19:06:36 (edited)
    Wonderful
    brennan
    +33
    Its great now Barney might make a friend his own color instead of children!!Also what color would it turn if you choke it?

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  • srini Ghostie... 2012/02/11 16:03:23
    srini
    +2
    Probably a natural genetic colour-phase of the grey-squirrel (akin to black squirrel, another variation--which unfortunately HAS been spotted on the other side of the Atlantic).
  • Ghostie... srini 2012/02/11 23:40:25
    Ghostie Of the Night
    maybe, yes. :\
  • Kim(: 2012/02/11 15:30:49
    Wonderful
    Kim(:
    POKEMON!!!
  • SarcasticB*tch 2012/02/11 15:26:02
    Wonderful
    SarcasticB*tch
    +2
    I LIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA!!! I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Mary 2012/02/11 15:07:18
    Worrisome
    Mary
    @clasact I agree with you on that one but I would assume that If something was toxic, they're would be a lot more purple squirrels
  • Greatki... Mary 2012/02/11 19:43:34
    Greatkibble
    This is not YouTube - if you wish to reply to someone then please click at the reply button of the desired post.

    ....lolz
  • Alex♥Adam 2012/02/11 15:03:17
    Wonderful
    Alex♥Adam
    Alien animal detected XD lol
  • clasact 2012/02/11 15:02:29
    Worrisome
    clasact
    +2
    make me wonder what the dang thing got into that would turn his color .Pa.has alot of rules on wet lands and such but they dont enforce them well so someone could be dumpping toxics and no one would know
  • cb 2012/02/11 14:50:52
    Wonderful
    cb
    +4
    I live in Texas. Four legs and just don't look right? it's not a squirrel, it's a chupacabra! texas chupacabra t shirt
  • eagle8 2012/02/11 14:46:40
    Wonderful
    eagle8
    yes I just read about this last night...very wild... it's

  • oreo 2012/02/11 14:38:12
    Wonderful
    oreo
    that is the coolest thing ever i want one
  • Massaro1150 2012/02/11 14:28:52
    Worrisome
    Massaro1150
    I love the color purple, but nature has a way of foretelling trouble more than man. Unless there are a breed of purple squirrels than something is wrong. They have a couple of colors changing from summer to winter for natural reasons and their survival--purple isnt one of them--Something is amiss in nature-which off sets everything.
  • Archer ~ The Limit Break of... 2012/02/11 14:28:19
    Wonderful
    Archer ~ The Limit Break of PHAET
    +2
    Both, really. I'm wondering if someone caught it and tried to dye it? Or if it got into some chemicals that did this? Or is it just a genetic mutation?

    He's adorable, though.
  • ▲ツMAXツ▼ 2012/02/11 14:07:40
    Wonderful
    ▲ツMAXツ▼
    Awesome :D but wait..what's his blood color? O.o
  • Dandydon 2012/02/11 14:02:31
    Worrisome
    Dandydon
    +1
    I would probably shoot it,to see if it has purple blood...
  • Thomas Wasserberg 2012/02/11 13:58:51
    Wonderful
    Thomas Wasserberg
    +1
    Cool-hope, it's just a joke...
  • moonsong 2012/02/11 13:57:03
    Wonderful
    moonsong
  • Someone Else 2012/02/11 13:55:11
    Wonderful
    Someone Else
  • lurch 2012/02/11 13:48:39
    Worrisome
    lurch
    +1
    He looks radioactive. What's our military doing with these animals?
  • Gloria 2012/02/11 13:47:08
    Worrisome
    Gloria
    If it isn't photoshop or punk hair product then it's fracking or mountain top mining.
  • NYCbrit 2012/02/11 13:36:26 (edited)
    Worrisome
    NYCbrit
    +3
    No worries, really.



    3 eyed fish
  • Kidasha 2012/02/11 13:13:08
    Wonderful
    Kidasha
    +2
    whats wrong with purple squirells?
  • ren 2012/02/11 13:12:09
    Wonderful
    ren
    Pokemon not a squirrel. Purpoly vs Pikachu.....
  • selena costa 2012/02/11 12:48:42
    Worrisome
    selena costa
  • TʜɘInƨɒnɘЯiddlɘ 2012/02/11 11:06:58
    Wonderful
    TʜɘInƨɒnɘЯiddlɘ
    +3
    they ate too many purple carrots
    purple carrots
  • Fenna 2012/02/11 10:00:33
    Wonderful
    Fenna
    +3
    they are really, really cute. And a little bit gay, but that is the fun.
  • kimlyn 2012/02/11 09:59:20
    Wonderful
    kimlyn
    That is by far the secound cutest thing I've ever seen the first would have to be my Ruben
  • ॐGuru Joshॐ 2012/02/11 09:52:14 (edited)
    Wonderful
    ॐGuru Joshॐ
    +1
    Weird and wonderful!
  • peggy 2012/02/11 08:26:07
    Worrisome
    peggy
  • selena ... peggy 2012/02/11 12:44:04
    selena costa
    duhhh
  • peggy selena ... 2012/02/11 15:10:04
    peggy
    +2
    Double duhhh to you weirdo
  • selena ... peggy 2012/02/11 17:08:22
    selena costa
    :D hahaa thanks lol
  • goatman112003 2012/02/11 08:22:06
    Wonderful
    goatman112003
    +1
    Hell I seen black squirrels, red ones gray ones and white ones so I have seen a purple one why not.
  • Somkey the Hores 2012/02/11 08:09:39
    Worrisome
    Somkey the Hores
    +3
    They're GAY.
  • Flea Somkey ... 2012/02/11 17:34:30
    Flea
    You got a problem with that?
  • Somkey ... Flea 2012/02/12 00:30:43
    Somkey the Hores
    What if I do? What are YOU gonna do about it?
  • Flea Somkey ... 2012/02/12 01:58:00
    Flea
    First, tell you that the word "gay" is no longer used as a derogatory insult.
    Next, I will email you information on sensitivity training.
    Third, I'm telling all my squirrel friends what you said, so the next time you go to a park, or even by the nearest tree, I would watch out for squirrel teeth.
  • Somkey ... Flea 2012/02/12 02:00:16
  • Flea Somkey ... 2012/02/12 02:32:38
    Flea
    +1
    Only if you go get your stupidity shot.
  • Somkey ... Flea 2012/02/12 06:50:29
    Somkey the Hores
    i don't get them, I GIVE them, and you're WAY overdue for yours.

    Not everyone follows your agenda, and you are NOT special.

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