A 34-year-old pregnant woman who was randomly attacked by a squirrel at Browns Point last week said she was putting her 5-year-old daughter in her car when she felt something run up her back and onto her head.
“I jumped back from the car, and I realized, ‘Oh my God, it’s a squirrel,’” Federal Way resident Alysha K. told The News Tribune Wednesday morning. Alysha asked to not print her full last name for privacy reasons. “I tried to, kind of, shoo it. At that point it’s on my head, so I don’t want to get it to attack me.”
As reported by The News Tribune on Monday, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife “lethally removed” five squirrels in the Browns Point area with a firearm last week after it was found they were “exhibiting behavior indicating they had become habituated to people,” likely a result of them being fed by humans…