I’ll bet my husband has killed well over 300 squirrels out
here. They get in his pear trees and eat every pear they
can stuff in their pieholes. I hear BOOM! and the buzzards
fly in for a meal happy as larks to get something besides
the roadkill they usually have.
That’s what finally got me to get rid of them. All my fine pears, peaches apricots and apples would get taken by the tree rats. They’d take a couple of bites and leave 90% behind.
Can’t shoot them here in the ‘burbs with a regular firearm, so I bought an accurate and powerful 22 pellet gun. The first one I nailed ran back up our fence then promptly expired in our PETA kook neighbor’s yard. The last thing I needed was her finding a plugged squirrel on her property, so I had to quickly cobble together a carcass retriever. I went back to trapping after that little episode.