Morbidly obese squirrel has piled on the pounds by eating Ohio woman’s pumpkins

• Erin Zak uploaded a video of a wild squirrel hanging around her pumpkins on TikTok and asked whether it was  ‘pregnant or just that fat?’
• Users quickly jumped to the wild animal’s defense and jokingly commented that she was being mean
• In another video, the photogenic squirrel gave Zak a full view of its new body  

An Ohio woman claims a hungry squirrel has been devouring the pumpkins she keeps on her porch. 

Erin Zak shared a video to TikTok showing a wild squirrel hanging around her pumpkins, prompting thousands of viewers to defend his ‘winter bulk’.

The clip, which has nearly 25 million views and 4.5 million likes, was captioned: ‘Stop eating my pumpkins!’ 

In the footage, Zak marvels at the squirrel: ‘Oh my god, are you pregnant or just seriously that fat?’

Erin Zak shared a video to TikTok showing a wild squirrel hanging around her pumpkins, prompting thousands of viewers to defend his ‘winter bulk’

The clip, which has nearly 25 million views and 4.5 million likes, was captioned: ‘Stop eating my pumpkins!’

But viewers were quick to the squirrel’s defense and jokingly commented that she was being mean to the squirrel. 

One user wrote: ‘Why u roasting the squirrel like that?’ while another wrote: ‘Why are you so mean to the squirrel?’

Other users began to speculate why the squirrel was all beefed up with one writing: ‘First of all, maybe he’s had a rough time lately and is eating his feelings’ to which Zak responded and said: ‘Sounds exactly like me hahaha’ 

Another user theorized that he was bulking up to prepare for ‘three winters’. 

Soon after the video went viral, Zak shared more footage of the same squirrel. 

It showed the squirrel looking directly at Zak’s camera for a couple of seconds and quickly turning to his side for a better view of his body and fluffy tail. 

Soon after the video went viral, Zak shared more footage of the same squirrel

https://youtube.com/watch?v=cqDVEhOdQxw%3Frel%3D0%26start%3D1

It showed the squirrel looking directly at Zak’s camera for a couple of seconds and quickly turning to his side for a better view of his body and fluffy tail

At the time of publishing, the video has 3.4 million views and nearly a million likes. 

Squirrels are known to put on weight throughout the year, depending on what stage of their breeding cycle and life cycle they are at. 

These tiny animals do not hibernate, so in the cold season they live off the nut stashes they prepared beforehand as well as go out to forage to find more periodically.

When temperatures drop below freezing, they have nice padding of fat to keep them warm and provide energy. 

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