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Don't these give you the plague or something?
Yeah that squirrel should be more careful
They can be rabid, but they'd have to bite you to transmit that.
As a trained squirrel handler, while it's not impossible for a squirrel to get rabies, there is probably a single digit number of them out there at any given moment.
At least in the US, no one has ever gotten rabies from a squirrel.
Your rabies prone species are bats, coyotes, fox, groundhogs, raccoons, and skunks.
That said, it's unadvisable to touch any wild animals. (Though I'd still boop that squirrel.)