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Sneezy the Squirrel Vying for Mascot Status at Penn State

Sneezy the Squirrel Vying for Mascot Status at Penn State

Penn State junior Mary Krupa has been dubbed the campus “squirrel whisperer” after earning the trust of one of the college’s many squirrels in residence. Mary has trained a squirrel she calls Sneezy to pose in dress-up clothes such as hats and sunglasses, even holding miniature props. Sneezy’s Facebook page has almost seven times more likes than the school’s own mascot, the Nittany Lion, provoking enough confusion to cause a German magazine to mistakenly report Sneezy as the school’s mascot …

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