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Photos: Purple Squirrel Found in Pennsylvania

by Emily Sutherlin | February 7, 2012 at 05:34 pm

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A Purple Squirrel has been found in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania by a local couple Percy and Connie Emert.

Move Over, Punxsutawney Phil. You have new competition. Mr. and Mrs. Emert have captured a purple squirrel on their property eating from their bird feeder.

"We have bird feeders out in our yard, and the squirrels are constantly into them," said Jersey Shore resident Connie Emert. "My husband traps them and then sets them free elsewhere so they don't get into your bird feeders." Emert said she had mentioned several times that she saw a purple squirrel to friends and family, but no one believed her.

"I kept telling my husband I saw a purple one out in the yard. 'Oh sure you did' he kept telling me," said Emert. "Well, he checked the trap around noon on Sunday and sure enough, there it was."

Currently, no one knows why the squirrel is purple. They trapped it by putting peanuts in a cage, as that's how they catch other squirrels stealing their feed from their bird feeder.

"We have no idea whatsoever. It's really purple. People think we dyed it, but honestly, we just found it and it was purple."

The Emerts plan to release the squirrel back into the wild in the next few days.

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