When I lived in FL, I absolutely loved these adorable creatures, and so did my husband. Long time ago, but as I recall, we put out some kind of food for them.
Squirrels are cute too, but the amount of damage they did to my house...
Some dummy released a bunch of eastern red squirrels on Vancouver Island, and they are killing off and driving out the indigenous grey squirrels. They are also raiding songbird nests and reducing that population.
I am not the least bit fond of invasive species. Think starlings.
If you could only train them to do something useful. But they prefer to lounge around all day.
the problem is that they are over-running areas and creating quite the problems i guess- towns will hire iguana hunters to help thin them out some they get so over-crowded