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“It clamped onto my leg. The tail was flying up here. I was
like, ‘Get it off me, get off me!’,” Heblack said.
Isabel Campoy also said she was attacked while walking in the
same area. The squirrel launched itself from the ground to her
face and wound up on her arm, leaving it bloody, she said.
Both women went to the emergency room, the TV station reported
in its Monday story.
Flyers have now been posted, warning residents that the squirrel
is no joke and that more than five people have been attacked by
a ”very mean squirrel" that “comes out of nowhere.”
Lisa Bloch with Marin Humane says they have had no reports of
squirrel attacks since mid-September. If the squirrel crops up
again, the nonprofit will coordinate with the state to remove
the animal, she said.
“We've seen this kind of behavior before,” she said. “It's
almost always because someone has been feeding the animal.”
The good thing is that squirrels are not vectors for rabies. She
says people should never feed wildlife.
San Rafael is in Marin County, about 20 miles (32 kilometers)
north of San Francisco .
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