Some days I just hate everyone. Unimaginable that adult human beings would blow up squirrels and others would applaud such cruelty. Poor little limbless squirrels will be suffering and bleeding.....horrible.
When you’re overrun with ground squirrels, you have a few choices on how you get rid of them:
1. Poison.
2. Flooding/drowning.
3. Fumigation, eg, using auto exhaust down the hole.
4. Blasting, per the above.
5. Shooting, but this is viable control only if you have a LOT of time.
I’ve had to kill THOUSANDS of ground squirrels on a hay farm, sometimes as many as 800 per season. Their reproductive rate is prodigious and they’re rather destructive.
Squirrels are nothing more than rats with a good PR department.