See the Purple Squirrel Discovered in Pennsylvania!
- Posted on February 7, 2012 at 9:55pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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You might not believe your eyes, but they aren’t fooling you. You’re really looking at a purple squirrel discovered in Pennsylvania:
The odd creature was discovered by Percy and Connie Emert in Jersey Shore, PA on Sunday.
“We have bird feeders out in our yard, and the squirrels are constantly into them,” Connie told Accuweather.com. “My husband traps them and then sets them free elsewhere so they don’t get into your bird feeders.”
She said she had seen the little creature on the property before, but no one would believe her.
“I kept telling my husband I saw a purple one out in the yard. ‘Oh sure you did’ he kept telling me,” she added. “Well, he checked the trap around noon on Sunday and sure enough, there it was.”
The Emerts plan to release the squirrel back into the wild in the next few days. As for why he is purple, they don’t know. But they swear they had nothing to do with it. The Accuweather team has some theories, though, ranging from him getting into paint to even falling into a port-a-potty.
By the way, the pictures above are from the squirrels Facebook page. You can “like” him here. But that’s not all. He even has a Twitter account:
You can “follow” him here.
As Buzzfeed points out, this isn’t the first time a purple squirrel has baffled the world. Another one was discovered in 2008 in the U.K. At the time, the Telegraph cited a wildlife expert who thought the squirrel had gotten into some old printer cartridges and had groomed the color into its fur. He believed back then the squirrel would eventually shed the funky hue as his hair fell out and new hair grew back.
Have a theory? Let us know in the comments.
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Comments (131)
The-Monk
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:53pmGot too close to a LGBT meeting and they sprayed it with purple hair spray.
Report Post »maroon67
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:28amPurple People Eater! Uuumpa Loompa!
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:06amIt’s a SEIU informant.
Report Post »noblevegas
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:21am@4XEVERYTHING, You just gave me a much needed laugh this morning. We’ve got to find a way to get that idea to B.S. of A. Brian and the crew would have the perfect ‘Glenn-Beck-Anti-SEIU” sketch with this one!
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:00amPurple Haze, baby! Toothy little bugger!
Report Post »YOUR NOT GETTING MY GUNS
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:03amBetter contact Erin Brockovich. There’s reason for a class action lawsuit against someone in PA for creating this. Maybe it’s from the natural gas fracking. Darn, now the EPA will get involved.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:23amBest guess?
Rocky J. Squirrel made it out of the cartoons and into reality.
Wait. He was gray.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:43am@Maroom
Report Post »As a kid in the 50′s, we had a “Kid’s Day Parade” in the summer and we kids would parade down our little mainstreet and one year, I dressed like the “One-eyed People Eater”(they taste just like chicken) LOL
Patrick Henry II
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 1:41pmSantorum winning 4 states now not newsworthy?
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 2:20pmWow, it must be cold up there.
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 3:50pmSquirrel got into Janet’s eye shadow in her DHS bathroom! FBI.CIA,DEA, have sent out hit squads!
Report Post »Lucky1
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:00pmThe only ligitimate voter in Pa. Only voted once.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:36pmWe used to have a huge“ white” cat and my daugher would “tie dye”
(purple,blue and green sometimes red) this animal!
People would ride by the house and slow down to stare at this cat.
Report Post »It was hilarious!!
Oh yeah.. the cat also had a blue eye and a yellow eye on top of that!!!
stumpy68
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:29pmSprayed by peta for wearing fur
Report Post »Ucit71
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:36pmIt‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »Pro-Palin
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:47pmI blame Snookie !!
Report Post »welloddyfriggindah
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:33pmNot a free range purple squirrel.
Report Post »sun_yat_sen
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:32pmHeld its breath too long.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:25pmWell, as Chuck Woolrey pointed out, a million a year on albino squirrel sanctuaries, so … we might not watn to have reported on the pruple squirrel, because now we’ll have to spent a million a year on purple squirrel sanctuaries.
Report Post »SoloPocono
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 2:06amWHOA!! Wait a sec!! I started 2 albino “sanctuaries”, like 30 YEARS ago!! They’re getting $$$?? Why?? The wildlife assoc I co-founded when I was doing that would prob like to know!! I started caring for orphaned & injured squirrels when I was 16, (more than 30yrs ago!), and working for an animal hospital. These critters are actually VERY easily tamed/trained. Had 2 3-legged ones that were litter-box trained.
Report Post »The Woot
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:21pmCan’t BS me, the squirrels from Frisco.
Report Post »TurkE
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:15amIf he were really from San Fran., I think he’d be brown, unless he was new to town
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:15pm“See the Purple Squirrel Discovered in Pennsylvania!”
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shouldn’t we be more interested in the red maggot found in the White House?
LANE131
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:18am@TSUNAMI-22 Now that’s funny and so true, best line in the story!
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:18pmYeah, Well I‘m hoping the maggot’s days are numbered before he’s just a fly speck on the White Out House.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:11pmWe all know why. Global Warming…
Why is it not hibernating now. It got up to soon and the purple is left over natural hormone that is related to hibernation. If it got the full sleep it would have wore off to be grey.
Report Post »SoloPocono
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 2:09amDanged bats are already out up here too-and HUNGRY!!
Report Post »DividedWeFail
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:10pmSo a PURPLE SQUIRRAL STORY
IS
More
Important
Than
Santorum
Winning
In
MN
And
CO?????
Report Post »cuzifit
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 3:29amDivided, This is what’s called a feel good story. Lighten Up!
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:01amIn the grand scheme of things, yes. Sorry to upset you.
Report Post »napoleon_solo
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 2:55pmGet a life. So every single story has to be about Santorum?
Report Post »gemmeri
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:22pmDivided, I celebrated all morning for his wins. I can only hope the other states are as smart because he is the only real choice we have. Go Santorum! But right now, I want them to let the purple squirrel go & they can release it into my neighborhood because I & my neighbors would be proud to have the silly thing here & I would have to feed it. Of course, I would. My husband doesn’t allow me any pets right now, but this wouldn’t really count. Give me purple squirrels any day!
Report Post »billrow
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:02pmThe squirrel just voted.
Report Post »9111315
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 7:57am. . . for Ron Paul.
Report Post »RejectFalseIcons
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 12:03pmProving that even Rodents have more common sense than the false conservatives who back any of the three stooges.
Report Post »laxman63
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:51pmThe squirrel is a rabid Ravens fan! Still upset the Ravens lost in the AFCCG, but happy the Pats “bit the dust” in the SB! =)
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:44pmCouldn‘t be from all of the color enhancing dye they’re putting in the birdfood…
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:55pmOr just one of those kids’ birthday cupcakes…you know…the ones that you cr*p the color afterwards.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:42pmBarney?
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:41pmCute little sons of bitch.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:32pmTHXLL38, ain’t it though?
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:40pmWell, this is a new one for me. Can’t say I ever saw or heard of one before. Interesting. We live fairly close to the Fernald Plant in Ohio. People claim the deer glow in the dark there. Just kidding on my part but some of the locals really believe this. If they see this squirrel hard telling what they will come up with.
Report Post »rlawson1304
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:35pmIs that Sheila Jackson Lee?
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:18pmNo silly she is much hairyer than that and ugly……………
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 11:48pm<3 Your picture
Report Post »TimM
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:35pmI think Snookie has something to do with it.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:11amYep, you made the connection. I live in NE Pa. (about 50 miles from Jersey Shore). There was a story on the local news 2 nights ago that the town contacted the producers of the “Jersey Shore” show to make an episode there, and were turned down. It looks like the ‘purple’ squirrel is a stunt to get the town’s name national exposure, so maybe the producers of the show will reconsider. It’s too coincidental for my taste.
Report Post »Dodsfall
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:29pmIt’s obviously an SEIU squirrel making sure that the birdseed wealth is spread around “fairly”. (Given to the union squirrels and not the non-union ones)
Report Post »KingCanon
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:22pmWow… and nearly 45 years after the Grape Ape.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:21amHmmm, I wonder if there’s any relation to Rocky…from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Report Post »PAINESMAN
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:21pmMan I bet he’ll be tasty…….
Report Post »OSOK
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:18amGrape Flavored?
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:18pmIt’s got to be a progressive squirrel…shoot it…just kidding :o(
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:14pmyummy…squirrel stew.
Report Post »JeremiahJ-Hashman
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:08pmJust another way for the enviromentilst to pass some new band on paint port o potties. Or how knows maybe the constitution. But pretty cool looking though
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:20pmQuick! Call the EPA !!
Report Post »Clearly an endangered species!
LOL
I had never seen a purple squirrel; I thought I’d never see one. But I can tell you here and now, I’d rather see than be one!
CatB
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:06pmGlad they were able to catch it .. before the husband had the wife committed. ;-)
Report Post »yanki161
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 1:36pmHa ha ha I wonder how many “I told you so”s he had to hear after the capture? LOL
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:01pmI never saw a purple squirrel
Report Post »I never hope to see one
But I can tell you anyhow
I’d rather see than be one
oldguy49
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 10:11pmwhen i use to drink i had seen some pink ellephants…..
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