The bill was introduced to prevent another situation like one in New York where an illegal pet squirrel was taken and ...

Red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) are the ones that are legal in the state. Flying squirrels (Pteromyini) are also allowed to ...

For hundreds of years, society’s elites stitched red-squirrel pelts into luxurious floor-length capes and made the animals pets, cradling them in their lap and commissioning gold collars ...

"I don't think it would be much of a problem," Spillane said. The bill would not allow residents to take a red squirrel as a pet. "Red squirrels do not adapt to becoming pets at all," Spillane added.