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 ...

Squirrels foraging for food in public parks is a common sight in winter across New York state. But in late December, squirrels sporting unusually bright red coats began turning up in a park in the ...

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 ...

Sightings of bright red, painted squirrels started in Putnam County, New York, in late 2023, per the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Courtesy of New York State Department of ...

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 ...