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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:20:33 PM EDT
Never seen one until around noon today. Looked normal and healthy and only its tail was white.
Didn't get a picture but my 4 year old grandson and my wife got to see it. So I googled white tailed fox squirrel. Well appears I didn't discover a new species  I did many years ago see an albino squirrel.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:23:29 PM EDT
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I have one that jumps onto my house from tree next door.
He starts munching on my house there will be a very dead white tail squirrel near me. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:28:15 PM EDT
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Hey guys, I accidentally spilled some bleach on a rat or something. You think it will be ok?
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:29:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I have one that jumps onto my house from tree next door. He starts munching on my house there will be a very dead white tail squirrel near me. Thanks for sharing. Seemed strange only the tail was white. I've also seen at least 4 piebold deer, not sure on the spelling. Last one I saw was a small fawn. But that's off topic and they just had the occasional brown patches. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:30:04 PM EDT
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I need to trap and dye some squirrels weird colors.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:35:48 PM EDT
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At the furry conference every year.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:36:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to trap and dye some squirrels weird colors. So wtf does that have to do with my topic. Guess in GD tards abound. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:38:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I need to trap and dye some squirrels weird colors. No need. Paintball guns work well. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:43:42 PM EDT
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No but my first squirrel I shot when I was 8 was a melanistic phased red squirrel with a black belly.
My grandpa had it mounted for me. When my son killed his first I had mine put on a different piece of wood with his.  ETA: at one house I lived in there was an albino that I tried and tried to kill with a BB gun. If that was now instead of back then I could probably shoot it with a .22 in that part of town and no one would blink an eye. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:49:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No but my first squirrel I shot when I was 8 was a melanistic phased red squirrel with a black belly. My grandpa had it mounted for me. When my son killed his first I had mine put on a different piece of wood with his. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/351019/84939.JPG ETA: at one house I lived in there was an albino that I tried and tried to kill with a BB gun. If that was now instead of back then I could probably shoot it with a .22 in that part of town and no one would blink an eye. My bad but the 2 taxidermy squirrels, one looks like a gray squirrel and the other a fox squirrel. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:51:52 PM EDT
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My daughter saw one the other day and asked me about it. Apparently it's a fairly common genetic mutation.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:55:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My bad but the 2 taxidermy squirrels, one looks like a gray squirrel and the other a fox squirrel. Red/Fox. Whatever you want to call them. My sons is a little grey. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:56:47 PM EDT
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Someone I know just mentioned this to me, he’d seen a white tailed squirrel. I’ve never seen one myself.
We’re getting those little hyper red squirrels by me now. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:56:59 PM EDT
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Not white. I've seen blacks with red tails, grey's with black tails and such.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:57:18 PM EDT
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I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 5:58:32 PM EDT
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I think I saw that in a Pepe le Pew cartoon but it happened to a cat.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:05:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page. Well please share what they look like lol |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:09:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:10:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page. Here you go! 
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:21:40 PM EDT
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That's not a fox squirrel.
This is a fox squirrel:  We also have white squirrels (not albino) in this part of Florida:  |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:23:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's not a fox squirrel. This is a fox squirrel: https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/wecdept/files/2015/11/Untitled11.png Man, I don't know what the fuck that is.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:29:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Man, I don't know what the fuck that is. Yes the picture you posted with the pretty young lady was a fox squirrel. Not sure what those ones below your picture are. Lol |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:32:00 PM EDT
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My dad had a Have-A-Heart trap that he used to use to catch squirrels. He would promptly spray paint their tails white and release them at Botany Bay on Edisto Island.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:33:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:35:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My dad had a Have-A-Heart trap that he used to use to catch squirrels. He would promptly spray paint their tails white and release them at Botany Bay on Edisto Island. 
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:36:12 PM EDT
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Had one with a blond tail
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:38:29 PM EDT
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I saw a completely white squirrel in NY
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:39:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page. Exactly Here ya go, We got a bunch of 'em in the yard every day. They are almost twice the size of a cat squirrel. 
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Posted: 7/13/2022 6:40:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Exactly Here ya go, We got a bunch of 'em in the yard every day. http://www.eworldz.com/pix/grayfox.jpg Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page. Exactly Here ya go, We got a bunch of 'em in the yard every day. http://www.eworldz.com/pix/grayfox.jpg That, sir, is an abomination. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 7:44:42 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/13/2022 7:45:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How about a black squirrel? Saw this one in Nebraska.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/225497/601B4A9D-4586-417B-BE6A-F765C64EFF18_jpe-2451731.JPG @WhiskersTheCat |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 7:47:44 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/13/2022 7:49:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @WhiskersTheCat Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: How about a black squirrel? Saw this one in Nebraska.https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/225497/601B4A9D-4586-417B-BE6A-F765C64EFF18_jpe-2451731.JPG @WhiskersTheCat Yep, funny enough the biggest black populations of squirrels are in Nebraska and DC. Weirdly enough. Look it up, their distribution is really odd |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:06:18 PM EDT
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There's a few black squirrels running around my neighborhood. One has a white tail and the other has a straw colored tail. It's pretty cool.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:11:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Had one with a blond tail Several blondies around me. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:14:46 PM EDT
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I seent it, once
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:41:26 PM EDT
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Carolina fox squirrels can be very colorful. I have one on my property that has half its head black and the other half white.
It's just like that Star Trek episode... |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:49:47 PM EDT
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I did see a half naked squirrel once. Some sort of mange must have gotten him as he was bald from his midsection all the way to the beginning of his tail, but for some reason the tail was bushy.
I was talking to my nephew about 10 yards away and the squirrel walked between us and climbed up a woodpile and disappeared up into a tree. My nephew looks at me and says did you just see a half naked squirrel, and I replied yep. We just both started laughing. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 8:52:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, funny enough the biggest black populations of squirrels are in Nebraska and DC. Weirdly enough. Look it up, their distribution is really odd We have them here in California too, there is a decent population near the Stanford linear accelerator. We had a few of the black ones in one of the parks I worked in, one of them had about a 1 inch long bit on the end of his tail that was pure white. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:00:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhen I lived in Ohio, there was a park in the middle of town (pop about 500) that was just loaded with black squirrels. Never seen them anywhere since. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:08:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:11:13 PM EDT
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Never seen a white tailed fox squirrel. I have seen a totally albino one once.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:15:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No but I have seen some beautiful taxidermy with squirrels https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/514778/9D5AA4CF-0425-4CF4-A985-8B8AAB196D6D_jpe-2451734.JPG  looks like somebody was brave enough.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:18:11 PM EDT
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I've heard of the black squirrels but have never seen one.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:18:49 PM EDT
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Never seen one with a white tail, but we've got one down the road with a tail that looks bleach-blonde, and a small colony of blavk morph gray squirrels in a neighboring town.
ETA-I have been seeing a mostly white American robin though.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 9:22:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No but my first squirrel I shot when I was 8 was a melanistic phased red squirrel with a black belly. My grandpa had it mounted for me. When my son killed his first I had mine put on a different piece of wood with his. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/351019/84939.JPG ETA: at one house I lived in there was an albino that I tried and tried to kill with a BB gun. If that was now instead of back then I could probably shoot it with a .22 in that part of town and no one would blink an eye. i absolutely love the multi-generation taxidermy...looks like good work too! I put my daughter's first fish on the wall(she started fishing with me at 3) and the hide from her first deer. This year she wants to hold out for a buck bigger than mine. I told her I'm ok with her getting picky, but that might cause her to not get a deer. Also told her good luck and he'll go on the wall if she gets something with nice antlers. Watch the little shit get a 160. 
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Posted: 7/13/2022 10:56:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I've heard of the black squirrels but have never seen one. Funny enough I hadn't seen one before I saw them in Nebraska. I saw one years later near the Vietnam Memorial, but I haven't seen one in a few years. The further you get out from DC the more rare they are. They're really localized. White squirrels also have a very random distribution, but I've never seen one and it's been awhile since I looked it up. I think they're equally crazy random like (I'm making this up) Florida and some county in Michigan. I guess there's some merit to it, but also there's envirofags just choosing to introduce them in random places. Unlike birds, which tend to make sense in migration areas, the weird color squirrels make no sense. |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 10:58:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We have them here in California too, there is a decent population near the Stanford linear accelerator. We had a few of the black ones in one of the parks I worked in, one of them had about a 1 inch long bit on the end of his tail that was pure white. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Yep, funny enough the biggest black populations of squirrels are in Nebraska and DC. Weirdly enough. Look it up, their distribution is really odd We have them here in California too, there is a decent population near the Stanford linear accelerator. We had a few of the black ones in one of the parks I worked in, one of them had about a 1 inch long bit on the end of his tail that was pure white. Huh. I've never seen that style with the white tail. Just all grey, all red or all black |
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Posted: 7/13/2022 11:10:10 PM EDT
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No but I’ve seen a white squirrel with a fox tail. Not even joking.
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Posted: 7/13/2022 11:39:21 PM EDT
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Quoted: I haven't seen a fox squirrel on this page. Quoted: That's not a fox squirrel. Those reddish ones are Fox Squirrels. You may have something different where you live, but those pictured above are definitely Fox Squirrels. https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/eastern-gray-squirrel-eastern-fox-squirrel |
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