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...was the question to which I had a fraction of a secon to answer. Opted not to kill the poor inocent bugger who just happened to run accross the street where I was driving with bunch of models on a board on the front seat as we were moving to a new house last week...
They're tree rats. I don't go out of my way to kill a squirrel, but I'm not changing course to avoid one, either.
A couple years ago, one dashed out in the street in front of me and he got clipped. I stopped at a stop sign at the end of the block, and I happened to see him in my rear view mirror. I watched as two other squirrels approached the injured one, they sniffed, and then they proceeded to tear him apart.
I've seen them eat their own young, too.
And they can strip a garden of vegetables in the space of a morning. They're worse than people say humans are, more wasteful. I see them pluck a tomato, take a bite, then toss it away. They bite the blossoms off flowering plants.
They gnaw through phone and other cables. They get stuck in transformers and short them out.
Tree rats.