"In one Bay Area town, an aggressive neighborhood squirrel has locals nervous after it attacked several residents, prompting visits to the emergency room for bites and scratches to their arms and legs, according to a local humane society and a resident. The attacks in the Lucas Valley neighborhood of San Rafael were confirmed by Lisa Bloch, the director of marketing and communications at Marin Humane."
"One of those squirrel victims was Joan Heblack, 80, who has lived in her Lucas Valley home for about 11 years and has never had problems with squirrels until she recently took a morning walk. In a phone interview, she said she was on Mt. Diablo Circle when she suddenly felt something heavy on her leg, when she looked down she saw it - a squirrel."
An aggressive squirrel in the Lucas Valley neighborhood of San Rafael attacked multiple residents, causing bites and scratches that sent at least two people to the emergency room. Marin Humane's communications director Lisa Bloch confirmed the ER visits and described the injuries as squirrel-inflicted lacerations treated out of an abundance of caution. Eighty-year-old Joan Heblack reported feeling the squirrel jump onto her leg on Mt. Diablo Circle and fending it off after screaming and shaking her leg. Neighbors reported additional victims including a young girl and her aunt at an open house, with one woman requiring stitches. Experts say people hand-feeding squirrels can reduce the animals' natural fear of humans and contribute to such behavior.
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