A day after Alabama police freed what they described as a meth-addled “attack squirrel,” the animal’s owner, still wanted for drug and weapons charges, posted a Facebook video of himself stroking it and insisting it was drug free.
Lying on a bed in a darkened room with his heavily tattooed arms in the foreground, Mickey Paulk, 35, blasted the police for executing a search warrant on an address where he no longer lived and ridiculed them for suggesting his pet had dabbled in methamphetamine.
In a message to the Washington Examiner, Paulk said that his squirrel was called Deez Nuts and although “not all that trained” the animal “does use a litter box.”
“You can’t give squirrels meth,” he said. “It would kill ’em. I’m pretty sure. I’ve never tried it.”
Outlining more details about his pet as he stroked it, he continued: “He’s just a baby. He’s 10-and-a-half months old. He is an asshole. He’s a mean motherf—er, no doubt. But he’s not a trained attack squirrel and he’s not on meth, I’m pretty sure. Better not find out he’s on meth, anyway. I don’t think he likes that shit.”
Describing his return to the house that had been searched and how he had rescued the apparently unnamed squirrel, Paulk said: “I don’t think he’d ever been outside before so he was on the top of a tree just screaming. I pulled up and whistled. He got his little ass right on my shoulder and came right along with me.
“So the squirrel is safe, y’all. The public isn’t in danger in any way from the meth-doused squirrel in the neighborhood, anything like that. This motherf—er. Like I say, he’s an asshole no doubt. He’s bit a few people.”
He reassured those concerned about his pet’s welfare. “For all those people, those animal lovers out there, you know. He’s alive and well, this f—er. He’s healthy. He’s still an asshole, too.”
Telling the squirrel to look at the camera, he said, “he’s good to go,” before signing off: “All right buddy. You have a good day. F— the rest of you all. I’m out.”
Sheriff’s deputies in Limestone County, Ala., raided a house Monday as part of a drug bust that resulted in the seizure ammunition, methamphetamine, body armor, and drug paraphernalia. They were tipped off before that a meth-using attack squirrel guarded the residence.
A sheriff’s spokesman said, “Prior to the search warrant, investigators were informed that Mickey Paulk kept an ‘attack squirrel’ inside his apartment, and that Paulk fed the squirrel meth to keep it aggressive.”
During the bust police discovered the squirrel in a cage. They filmed it, releasing the footage to the public, before consulting conservation officials and freeing it in a wooded area near the house, where it apparently remained awaiting Paulk’s return.
