Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Parks officials in Mountain View, Calif., are on the attack against squirrels they say have become dangerously aggressive, attacking at least three people. The latest victim was 4-year-old Andrew Packard, attacked by a brown tree squirrel as his mother unwrapped a muffin, The San Jose Mercury-News reported. Advertisement "It was such a horror," his mother, Jennifer, said of the attack, which left her boy with a trail of red claw marks, a bite on his upper arm -- and a regimen of painful rabies shots. "To hear your child screaming the way you've never heard before ... It was just bone chilling," she told the newspaper. Parks officials are now seeking permission to set traps and are cracking down on visitors feeding the wildlife. As for Andrew, he declared he would never go into a park with trees again -- and he keeps telling everyone the squirrel was trying to eat him. City officials have offered to give him a tour of the police and fire station.
