A Patterson man was arrested Monday for allegedly trapping squirrels and spray-painting them red, according to the Putnam County SPCA. The SPCA said the county's probation department notified the ...

Sightings of bright red, painted squirrels started in Putnam County, New York, in late 2023, per the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE.

PUTNAM COUNTY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A Putnam County man was ticketed after allegedly trapping and painting squirrels red to “keep track of those returning to his yard and causing his dogs to bark.” ...

PATTERSON — Seldom is the phrase “caught red-handed” meant literally. But it’s probably even less common to find a person spraying squirrels with Apple Red Rust-Oleum Paint + Primer. On Jan. 13, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sudden appearance of bright red squirrels in one New York town led investigators to discover they were being intentionally ...

Well, there’s a good reason for that. They don’t exist, naturally. Which is why it is easy to understand how folks in Patterson, New York were pretty, darned baffled to see bright red squirrels in ...

The sudden appearance of bright red squirrels in one New York town led investigators to discover they were being intentionally painted and released into the wild, according to investigators. One man ...