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A 'bloodthirsty' squirrel who left residents in a small Welsh town terrorised and scrambling for tetanus jabs has been caught - after a 48-hour rampage injuring at least 18 people.
The rogue rodent began attacking pensioners, children and pets in their gardens in Buckley, Flintshire, last week.
Dozens of locals have now been left with cuts to their hands after bites and scratches by the same grey squirrel, who was nicknamed 'Stripe' after the evil character from The Gremlins film.
The squirrel's reign of terror was finally brought to an end yesterday, when he was captured in a humane trap by 65-year-old Corrine Reynolds and handed to the RSPCA.
Despite befriending the creature, Mrs Reynolds was also bitten on the hand and decided she needed to act after seeing multiple reports of squirrel attacks on social media.
Mrs Reynolds said: 'I noticed yesterday that in the space of 48 hours, he has attacked 18 people.
'He has started attacking people who are just taking their recycling bags to the bin and they are quite gruesome injuries.'
A gran-of-nine fed the animal since summer and it has made regular trips to her garden while looking for food and shelter.
'He's not a friendly-natured squirrel I am afraid,' she said. 'He is a rogue one and I am starting to wonder if he has got something going on inside his head like a tumour.
'The speed of it is frightening, he dashes from the roof of my garden shed to me - but when he does it everyone else, he bites them.
'It has even bit an elderly person in the area. On one occasion it chased a lad down the road and a dad was left with a bloody cut on his head.
'Because it is a grey squirrel, you can't release it - there are rules for it. Red squirrels are different.'
Others took to social media to share their experience on a Buckley local community page, with one revealing her cats had been attacked.
full story..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-town-biting-18-victims-48-hour-rampage.html
The rogue rodent began attacking pensioners, children and pets in their gardens in Buckley, Flintshire, last week.
Dozens of locals have now been left with cuts to their hands after bites and scratches by the same grey squirrel, who was nicknamed 'Stripe' after the evil character from The Gremlins film.
The squirrel's reign of terror was finally brought to an end yesterday, when he was captured in a humane trap by 65-year-old Corrine Reynolds and handed to the RSPCA.
Despite befriending the creature, Mrs Reynolds was also bitten on the hand and decided she needed to act after seeing multiple reports of squirrel attacks on social media.
Mrs Reynolds said: 'I noticed yesterday that in the space of 48 hours, he has attacked 18 people.
'He has started attacking people who are just taking their recycling bags to the bin and they are quite gruesome injuries.'
A gran-of-nine fed the animal since summer and it has made regular trips to her garden while looking for food and shelter.
'He's not a friendly-natured squirrel I am afraid,' she said. 'He is a rogue one and I am starting to wonder if he has got something going on inside his head like a tumour.
'The speed of it is frightening, he dashes from the roof of my garden shed to me - but when he does it everyone else, he bites them.
'It has even bit an elderly person in the area. On one occasion it chased a lad down the road and a dad was left with a bloody cut on his head.
'Because it is a grey squirrel, you can't release it - there are rules for it. Red squirrels are different.'
Others took to social media to share their experience on a Buckley local community page, with one revealing her cats had been attacked.
full story..... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-town-biting-18-victims-48-hour-rampage.html
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