We trapped 21 this last Summer, and we live in town. We take them waaaay out into the country, although a couple of them died of a nervous breakdown inside the trap. It’s a matter of control, not eradication. Also, we have to hide the trap so that the local hippies/animal rights activists won’t come along and set them free.
A couple made themselves a little home in the roof of our porch, costing us megabucks to repair. They even decorated it with a fake bunch of grapes. If they didn’t have tails people would give them their proper place in society—vermin!
Two died of nervous breakdowns! Well, that certainly breaks my stone cold heart! They are like lice - darting back and forth across the roads which have very little traffic so you could almost call it “country” but it’s just an unincorporated part of a city. They truly are vermin. They can cause so much destruction. We trapped raccoons and skunks in Costa Mesa, CA when we lived there. Animal control would come pick them up but they euthanized the skunks right on the spot. I wonder if there’s such a thing where we live now. Hardly dare to ask...They’re probably protected. We have to keep having holes in our siding patched from woodpeckers and it’s against the law to shoot them too.
I was on the phone with a friend in CA this past summer and she wanted to know if she’d told me about a squirrel they had in their backyard. I think she hung up on me when I couldn’t stop laughing! A squirrel!! His thousands of relatives live in our neighborhood! I don’t aim for them when driving in or out of the neighborhood but wouldn’t cry if one didn’t make it across the road.