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No Explanation for Pennsylvania's Purple Squirrel

Seeded on Thu Feb 9, 2012 7:52 PM EST
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A Pennsylvania couple trapped, of all things, a purple squirrel on Sunday. Percy and Connie Emert, of Jersey Shore, Pa. caught the unusual animal when trying to keep birds safe from the rodents.

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Sir Richard Owen

The Emerts released the squirrel back into the wild on Tuesday.

  • 4 votes
Reply#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 7:52 PM EST
jameseg

Interesting! I'd love to know the reason these squirrels are purple -- the article states at least two others occurred in the past.

  • 7 votes
Reply#2 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 8:28 PM EST
Katheryn Brandy

I bet all of the other squirrels laugh and call him names! ;~( Poor squirrel

  • 12 votes
Reply#3 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 8:49 PM EST
Terry-2167801

They're Vikings Fans

  • 7 votes
Reply#4 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:14 PM EST
Katheryn Brandy

Ha! Like it!

  • 6 votes
#4.1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:19 PM EST
Baron Brian

@Terry,

They're Baltimore Ravens fans.

Or monsters.

  • 5 votes
#4.2 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:33 AM EST
L'EMPEREUR du POLE NORD

I think this Purple squirrel is actually GAY.

  • 4 votes
#4.3 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:38 PM EST
Terry-2167801

Tinky Winky Squirrels?

  • 5 votes
#4.4 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:23 PM EST
Katheryn Brandy

No, L'Empereur - he's a metro squirrel

  • 5 votes
#4.5 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:45 PM EST
DEATHNELL J.

The squirrel should be named..."Prince"!

  • 5 votes
#4.6 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:55 PM EST
Katheryn Brandy

As someone said earlier on the same article posted elsewhere - the squirrel formerly known as Prince

  • 5 votes
#4.7 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:32 PM EST
DEATHNELL J.

I got beaten to it? "Shucks"!

  • 3 votes
#4.8 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:30 PM EST
Katheryn Brandy

Oh no Deathnell - It's a case of Great Minds Think Alike

  • 3 votes
#4.9 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:55 AM EST
DEATHNELL J.

Thank you!

  • 3 votes
#4.10 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:48 AM EST
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markpup

Let the squirrel out of the cage!! It's not its fault it's purple.

  • 7 votes
Reply#5 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:23 PM EST
Stevie-445471

Maybe this squirrel is royalty.

  • 7 votes
Reply#6 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:25 PM EST
PattyNC

Little Ricky Sanatorium, dipped the squirrel in some purple Jesus he had mixed.

  • 1 vote
Reply#7 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 9:33 PM EST
Pat-#@!&!#@

Probably dietary. Wiki says they eat a lot of tree buds in the early spring, could be too many red buds. When my sister was a baby she loved carrots so much she turned a bit orange, our Mom says.

  • 6 votes
Reply#8 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 10:01 PM EST
T. Fargo

I'm thinking a diet including blue berries, black rasberries, currents, or a mess of dark colored grubs and insects. It could be something unnatural, however.

  • 2 votes
#8.1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:28 AM EST
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Bibi-1186846

He/she certainly is an even color.

The lady with the purple rabbit? Well I guess that was a childhood, Easter memory. :-)

  • 2 votes
Reply#9 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:15 PM EST
leonthecat

The artist formally known as squirrel got caught in a purple rain.

  • 5 votes
Reply#10 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:26 PM EST
T. Fargo

And lost his Rasberry Beret...

  • 3 votes
#10.1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:59 AM EST
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Future History

Katy Perry reincarnate.

  • 2 votes
Reply#11 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:19 AM EST
T. Fargo

She died?

  • 2 votes
#11.1 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:58 AM EST
Future History

<sigh> ..... no.

  • 2 votes
#11.2 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:36 PM EST
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Misty1950

He is the cousin of Sonic the Hedgehog!!

  • 2 votes
Reply#12 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:44 PM EST
daMamma

Fascinating color! I do hope that it is nature and not an indication of chemicals peculating up through the ground. (water?)

  • 3 votes
Reply#13 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:51 PM EST
Jimi Maynard

Just Rocky going punk on us ,have you caught a glimpse of Bullwinkle these days, heavy !!!

  • 2 votes
Reply#14 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:27 PM EST
Shelby Davenport

I've never seen a purple squirrel, I hope I never see one.

But I can tell you anyhow, I'd rather see than be one!

That's one cool squirrel!!!

  • 2 votes
Reply#15 - Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:04 PM EST
mstanley2265

uhh, maybe it's at Jay's Diner with Big E (Enoch) stranger things have been known to happen at Jay's Diner...uhuh..for sure.

  • 1 vote
Reply#16 - Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:54 PM EST
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