‘Fur’ and loathing

B’klyn snarls at ‘rabid’ squirrel

Brooklyn ain’t afraid of no squirrel.

Prospect Park is fearless in the face of reports of an aggressive, “possibly rabid” squirrel — with many parkgoers asserting Saturday that they’d give the cretinous critter a swift boot to the nuts.

“I would kick it and kill it,” swore Lakendra Tookes as she took her Chihuahua, Savannah, for a walk.

“I’m not gonna sit there and be a victim of some squirrel,” said Tookes, a 30-something publicist from Crown Heights.

Even her pint-sized pooch — a Brooklyn pup, after all — would win a squirrel fight, she insisted:

“Between me and my dog, we could take the squirrel.”

Carlos Nieves, 49, agreed that fancy footwork was all it would take to outfox a snarling squirrel.

“I’d pick up my [fishing] gear and I would stomp on it,” said Nieves, a Sheepshead Bay-based electrician. “I have a big foot,” he noted. City Health Department officials say five people were bitten by a squirrel in Prospect Park between Tuesday and Thursday of last week — including a 7-year-old girl.

The bites all happened near the Parkside and Ocean avenues entrance, and appear to have been from the same, unusually aggressive critter.

There is no cause for alarm — only caution, officials stress.

There have been no known cases of squirrels passing rabies to humans in the US, they say.

No more bites have been ported since Thurs- re- day, and if the squirrel was indeed rabid, it has likely died by now, a spokesperson said Saturday.

Still, the rodent could have infected other squirrels before dying, officials concede.

Parks Department staff and the Prospect Park Alliance are monitoring the park, searching for the original “possibly rabid” squirrel and any other squirrels it may have bitten and infected.

Parks Department staffers on Saturday asked Tanya Burrell, 49, who was volunteering at a charity book-bag giveaway at the Parkside Avenue entrance, to be careful, telling her and fellow volunteers to avoid any suspicious squirrels.

But Brooklyn don’t play that way. Burrell said she’d stand and fight.

“They let us know, the Parks workers. He said if you see it, run,” Burrell told The Post.

“I’m not running,” she said. “I got a bad leg. If he comes out and shows his face, I’m gonna fight him.”

Artist Sebastian Marc, of Flatbush, agreed: “I’m pretty peaceful. But if it would start chasing me, I would kick the soul out of that squirrel. I would play football with him.”

I’m not running. If he comes out and shows his face, I’m gonna fight him. Tanya Burrell (left) speaking of a ‘rabid’ squirrel that has bitten five people in Prospect Park