Collection Bureau Report #8100N

In September 1979, a homeowner in the city of [REDACTED] near [REDACTED] cut down a tree in his backyard. The tree, an old oak, was roughly 150-200 years old, and contained a particularly large squirrel nest, or drey, which was destroyed in the process. The homeowner, intending to build a patio where the tree had been, was forced to temporarily halt construction when his hired workers were repeatedly attacked by a frenzied squirrel, which set upon them, biting and scratching, with a fury that surprised all of them.

Unable to deal with the rodent assault, the project was postponed to the next day, when an exterminator was scheduled to arrive. However, the homeowner soon found that the squirrel continued to assault his home, attempting to smash its way in through windows and chew its way through wooden walls and doorframes. This made it impossible to sleep, and the homeowner later fired several bullets at the squirrel to no avail before being stopped by police.

The exterminator set a variety of traps, but despite clearly taking the bait, the squirrel did not seem affected and its attacks did not abate. Three separate attempts to have animal control relocate the squirrel also failed, even though the last placed it more than 5 miles away.

The attacks did not stop until 51 days later, when the homeowner found the emaciated body of the squirrel in his porch, with it apparently having starved to death. The Bureau, upon claiming and analyzing the remains, found that the squirrel was female and had recently given birth, and that it had seemingly not eaten for the 51 days that its assaults lasted. Reports that the homeowner continued to be harassed by squirrels until he died 18 months later of [REDACTED] caused by [REDACTED] could not be substantiated.