I feel the same way about our 'maters. I knew about tularemia from rabbits and leprosy from 'dillos, but what besides rabies can you get from squirrels? I don't think they have hanta around here (they've had that in the Four Corners area back west--I think on the res).
Can’t think of anything you’d get from squirrels except rabies and never heard of any around here getting it. Hubby keeps telling me he’s going to thin them out because they were chewing into the shed but he hasn’t.