Comments on: Albino Squirrel.

By: martha manatee

martha manatee — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:00:48 +0000

my friends dad hit a squirrel once. the next week he ALMOST hit a white squirrel. 2 possibilities:
albino squirrel or
GHOST OF THE SQUIRREL THEY HIT!!!

By: Ritta

Ritta — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:47:18 +0000

We have them in Toronto too. In Trinity park. Amusing!

By: Barbara Reese

Barbara Reese — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:43:15 +0000

My friend in Ashford, Connecticut has had a white squirrel living in her yard for two years now. She thinks it is the same one. How long do they live and what can you do to protect it.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 02:04:05 +0000

one time i was in washington dc at the mall near the washingotn memorial

and i saw two albino squirrels together

By: alyshia

alyshia — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:38:54 +0000

Exeter Ontario Canada is the home of the white squirrles in my area! http://www.whitesquirrels.ca/why.htm

By: Pandybat

Pandybat — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:43:27 +0000

An argument as old as time……..

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/squirrels.html

“Olney has overhyped themselves, according to a Marionville, Missouri, spokesperson, also publicized as Home of the White Squirrels. “They’ve got our backs up,” Marionville told us, an opinion they’ve held ever since Olney appeared making preemptive superiority claims on the Today Show in 1965. Marionville believes the squirrels arrived in town “just after the Civil War” and that they escaped from a traveling circus. “The squirrels in Olney were kidnapped from Marionville,” they explain.”

“Marionville claims to possess the largest, oldest colony of white squirrels in the world, around 300 to 600 here since at least 1854. The local Lions Club actively encourages the squirrels, building little wooden dwellings and planting nut-bearing trees. Marionville even contains a White Squirrel Bed and Breakfast, where visiting humans can stay.”

By: Akiro

Akiro — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:53:14 +0000

Olney, Illinois is “home of the white squirrel” and the white squirrels are actually protected to increase their numbers and cause the recessive trait to be displayed in the majority of the squirrel population.

By: jerminate

jerminate — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:59:20 +0000

In Brevard, NC, there’s a yearly white squirrel festival, and you can see the little buggers everywhere. Doesn’t seem like their visibility is hurting them any…

By: BengalBob

BengalBob — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 02:54:12 +0000

We have a great number of albino squirrels here at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

By: Perceive

Perceive — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:32:53 +0000

Squirrels are omnivores. They eat insects, small birds, frogs, other mammals, in addition to nuts, of course.

By: BJN

BJN — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:10:08 +0000

Yeah, the “prey” comment got my attention too. I have a photo somewhere in my slide collection of an albino squirrel in a Salt Lake City park. Maybe urban albino squirrels don’t have to worry so much about predators – any more than white cats and small dogs.

By: tom

tom — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:01:40 +0000

Predators and prey? Even if the acorns and nuts see the squirrel, they don’t have the means to get away from them in time.

Predators, yes. Prey, not so much.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:41:18 +0000

This is so odd that you post this because I just came across an albino squirrel myself in my neighborhood when I was out for a run. It surprised the heck out of me.