Squirrels are very easy to trap. Peanuts are like their cocaine. I just cleaned up an infestation at my 1/2 acre home. Trapped almost 50. Was a damn zoo from a neighbor feeding them. One day I had enough and bought traps. Was getting 3-5 per day for a while.
About 15 years ago, I did the same thing. Got rid of 74 of the damn things. The first one I drove 10 miles into the hills before I realized my time required and gas money. Said “screw that” and filled a big tub full of water and dropped the entire cage into the water.
Shot one but the pellet went right through him. He was able to run up a fence post, run about 40 feet on the top rails and died...falling into my animal loving neighbor’s back yard! That’s when I switched to the “final swim” approach.
Our neighbors told us at dinner on Saturday that squirrels were pitching pine cones at their garden furniture and ruined two lawn chairs!
Damn tree rats.
Did you have some fried squirrel, gumbo or other?