Just the truth

I've been trying to solve this little mystery for quite sometime. Today, a dead squirrel decided it was about time that I learn what exactly it was that I was searching for.

For those that do not know, I hate squirrels, they freak me out. But I don't know why. And when I saw a dead one lying on a pathway, I nearly had a heart attack and felt so sorry for the poor thing. I wanted to help it, because it looked like it had just died recently (no flies to be seen) but I didn't want to, because I was scared. After my whole adventure, my heart feels better, but the world decides I need to have another heart attack (and by heart attack I mean my heart skips some beat and then goes extremely fast) when I see this boy. And I had the exact same reaction I did when I saw the dead squirrel, so basically, this guy is a dead squirrel.