'Squirrel Painting' Mystery Solved After Man Admits to Coloring Rodents for Bothering His Dog Sightings of bright red, painted squirrels started in Putnam County, New York, in late 2023, per the ...

Man arrested for series of squirrel-painting incidents DEC police and the Putnam County SPCA caught the rodent artist red-handed last month By Phillip Pantuso, Managing Editor, Hudson Valley Feb 1 ...

Zhu Yingren, an 83-year-old painter in Hangzhou, has spent decades observing the cute creatures in West Lake of Hangzhou and portrayed them vividly on hundreds of paintings.