It was only a matter of time, I suppose, before the squirrels turned on us. From the BBC:
Squirrels have bitten to death a stray dog which was barking at them in a Russian park, local media report.
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.A “big” stray dog was nosing about the trees and barking at squirrels hiding in branches overhead when a number of them suddenly descended and attacked, reports say.
“They literally gutted the dog,” local journalist Anastasia Trubitsina told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
“When they saw the men, they scattered in different directions, taking pieces of their kill away with them.”
A local scientist is quoted as being skeptical of the attack, but the local paper notes that there’s a pine cone shortage in the area and the squirrels have “in a previous incident this autumn chipmunks terrorised cats in a part of the territory.”
Watch your backs, people. Don’t go out except in pairs. And bring nuts.
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