The Ear Notch Bandit strikes again!
I’ve posted several photos before of the local park squirrels sporting rather stylish and definitely unnatural notches cut into their ears. While squirrels are quite scrappy and will sometimes leave a bit of themselves behind after a fight, the sciurine body mods being 
rocked by the denizens of my park seemed to be too perfect to be anything but manmade. It was suggested by a commenter that the city was probably sterilizing squirrels to control the population and were marking those who’d already gone under the knife with an ear notch. OK, fine. But the squirrel up above, who I ran into on my most recent trip to the park this Thursday, seems to have gotten quite the whack job on his ear. Come on… even Vincent Van Gogh didn’t mutilate himself that much! What kind of a look is that!?!? From this perspective, the dangling tip of his ear almost takes on the appearance of a demon horn. I guess this week’s Saturday Squirrel will be a hit at the Halloween party next month anyway, especially if he can get the other ear to match…
Poor guy. Have a great weekend, and beware of the butcher!
That is one nasty ear notch! Maybe your park has a creepy squirrel who likes to keep trophies from his victims and this squirrel was able to get away before the attacker could rip off the chunk of ear entirely. And now the serial ear notcher is sitting in his nest, looking at his ear chunks, thinking about the one that got away.
LOL! It would be even creepier if it was a human serial ear notcher.
OUCH….squirrel fight resulting in a partial earectomy. Poor guy…..or girl. It’s a distinctive look alright but I doubt it will catch on with the others as a fashion statement.
Pam
It’s not quite like ripped jeans, is it?
Yeah, I’m not buying that city involvement/multillation thing here. No city worker is that messed up…are they?
I guess they need a way to know who’s already gone under the knife so, you know, they don’t cut off their jewels twice?
Are you sure that isn’t some crazed vampire squirrel? Or maybe a long lost species of bat?
Then again every single male cat I’ve ever has eventually ended up with an ear notch so it kind of makes sense a pissed off squirrel would have one too.
Some of the squirrels in the park act very batty… though a vampire squirrel would have to prey on the possums since his brethren are strictly diurnal.
That’s quite a piece of missing ear …
May as well have just removed the whole ear. Maybe it would make the squirrel more aerodynamic…
It’s a fashion statement. It’s the squirrel equivalent of those massive earlobe holes some humans have.
Then like with those humans with the giant plug stuck in their ears…. the fashion statement isn’t working.
I think those ears are cute!
Fashion is in the eye of the beholder…
Looks like he saying “that’s all, folks.”
Poor little dude.