I got a soft spot for them too...when I was a kid we had a couple of Pet Squirrels....my dad found 2 baby squirrels and brought them home. we fed them with eye droppers until they were big enough to eat nuts and such...then we let them go out in the yard. They used to come right up on our porch and we would hand feed them...it was pretty cool.
That being said...they can be a nuisance and you gotta do what you gotta do.....
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
a few years back at two of our buildings in Quincy the neighborhood squirrels learned to break into apartments for potato chips. They'd tear through the screen into the kitchen, ransack the place, then tear through a 2nd screen to make their escape. We set up a hav a heart at each building and would get a squirrel in each every morning and afternoon.
We had a rubbermade tote large enough to hold the trap. Fill it with water. Drop the squirrel filled trap in (we called it washing the squirrel - 'hey, give this a good wash'). It takes a minute, no noise or mess. We washed about 30 before the break in gene was culled from the pool.
If you let them go, even a couple of miles away, they will find their way back. And if they don't you have just made it someone else's problem.
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
I got a soft spot for them too...when I was a kid we had a couple of Pet Squirrels....my dad found 2 baby squirrels and brought them home. we fed them with eye droppers until they were big enough to eat nuts and such...then we let them go out in the yard. They used to come right up on our porch and we would hand feed them...it was pretty cool.
That being said...they can be a nuisance and you gotta do what you gotta do.....
check last spelling on post of squirrel ,it was a pun on spelling tree rat.but u knew what i was saying .....why belittle a person who can,t spell ???? does it make u feel superior ?? ...that comment belongs on that other hate n greet site...thanks 4 spell check.....
Not to go all PETA on you but I hafta ask- is it legal to kill the little bastages? Do "Cruelty to Animal" laws only count for puppies and kittens?
Call me soft but I would have a hard time drowning them. I could not shoot a deer either but let it be known that I have no problem driving an extra sharp treble through the maw of a jumbo (or schoolie) bass.
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