Some people have interesting priorities:
If squirrels are destroying the food you grow for your family, eliminate them from your property.
I like squirrels – in parks. And in the wild. But not in my corn.
As for snakes, I only kill moccasins. I have spoken in favor of snakes many times. “TerrifyingWorld” is a drive-by, or else he would know that I hardly kill anything. My garden is home to wasps and spiders, lizards, snakes, tortoises, birds and the occasional bunny.
Yet I do defend our food supply if I have to.
My family is a priority. Rodents are not.
I’m not growing corn to feed the wildlife. I’m growing it because grocery bills are getting ridiculous, and I don’t trust the GMO/chemical food system.
People do kill too many useful creatures around here, which hurts nature’s ability to regulate itself. Killing a snake is like breeding hundreds of rats.
If there aren’t enough predators, though, we must become one.
Because you don’t have a squirrel infestation. You have a lead deficiency.
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I would bet he is the kind of person to live in a zero lot line neighborhood and not understand why the ratio of pests to predators has become so out of balance.