Never mind mice, what do you do about squirrels?

Sorry kitty.
I’m sitting here at the moment watching a squirrel in one of our trees.
Only a little tree. Maybe I should cut it down. There are lots of trees for them to climb only 100yards away so maybe that’s the solution.
Elothan, of course it was a generalisation. There are lots of people in the country that object to killing animals, even horrible vermin.
I suppose what I was should have said is that everyone I speak to about this problem seems to have the same opinion and we all live in the country.
That doesn’t mean to say that they support cruel sports like fox hunting. As Jalima said- so many species have been introduced to our country that wreck havoc with our own wildlife. My husband shoots deer in a nearby forest,under very strict guidelines to control the deer population.
Around here you can hardly move without seeing a muntjac, a few years ago they were difficult to spot. Not any more.

Yesterday DH saw a squirrel in our poly tunnel and when I went to pick some strawberries there wasn't a single one left ( there were masses ripening the day before). I suspect that squirrel! We have to leave the door open as it gets so hot. On the subject of badgers, my friend had to pull out of the village open gardens as they had dug up her lawn so badly.

Don’t talk to me about squirrels!It cost us £0000
to get rid of a family of 7 from our roof space. Dratted things were chewing through everything .
Yes they are beautifully comical at a distance, but not so cute when they are thundering around your attic!
We tried everything, but it took two builders two days to clear them out then repair the roof.

After living with them for 51 years, loads run around my garden as we have a number of trees, been trying to fill the holes in the lawn when they bury their nuts. Never tried to get rid of them though, be a different matter if they got in the house that would be a nightmare.

In the garden of our last house, we had a large and prolific hazelnut tree. The local squirrels would strip it before any of the nuts were ripe. I spent several years raging at them and trying various deterrents, in the end I was glad to move away. I love animals but grey squirrels are rats with fluffy tails who destroy trees, other produce and damage property. I'm on the side of the exterminators! Humane of course.