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Cal of the Wild

Ep. 421: Attack Squirrels, Crime, and Close Encounters of the Bear Kind

Cal of the Wild

MeatEater

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.89.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week, Cal tells you about an attack squirrel with a penchant for older women, undercover agents tracking American poachers hiding in Canada, a spate of bear encounters in Ontario and Florida, and so much more.

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0:57.5

Here's Cal. There's an attack squirrel on the loose in Lucas Valley, California, and local

1:03.4

residents are going a little nuts. This clomped on to my leg and it was just hanging on. His tail

1:09.8

was flying up here, you know, and I was like,

1:12.8

get off me, get off me. And I kind of didn't want to touch it. Came out of nowhere. Out of nowhere.

1:16.9

I didn't see him running up to me at all. That's Joan Heblec, who was scratched and bit by this

1:22.4

squirrel during her morning walk in what appears to be an unprovoked attack, but this rodent reprobate appears to have

1:28.5

a penchant for nice-looking elderly women because Joan wasn't the only one to get jumped.

1:34.1

The squirrel went to the floor and from the floor tried to jump to my face, which I tried to

1:40.5

protect my face from, and then my arm was completely overcome by the squirrel.

1:49.0

Isabel Campoy sustained some pretty nasty-looking scratches to her right arm

1:53.1

before she convinced the squirrel to let her go. Since then, local residents have posted

1:57.8

signs around the neighborhood, warning of a, quote, attack squirrel.

2:01.4

This is not a joke, the poster reads. Contradicting most media coverage thus far,

2:06.4

more than five people have been attacked by a very mean squirrel over the past few days.

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