A family in England came home after a weekend getaway and thought someone had broken into their house. The place was trashed, curtains and sofa ripped apart and window frames splintered. A deranged burglar perhaps?
Then they noticed the tiny, sooty paw prints. All over the place.
They thought burglars had broken in, but then noticed a set of sooty paws had left tracks all over the room.
The rodent had tried chewing through the window frames and tore the curtain and settee to shreds in its desperation to escape.
The 67-year-old retired engineer said: "We noticed that the fireguard had been knocked on to the carpet and there were coals on the floor.
"Then we noticed that the wooden window frame had been gnawed extensively – most of it was gone.
"There were pot plants and ornaments strewn across the room and we immediately thought someone had broken in. But my wife pointed out that the doors were still locked."
The couple's son, Shaun, found the squirrel's dead body behind the settee.
So it was another suicide squirrel.
Maybe he ate too many pot plants.