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Though squirrel family members are cute AF, I'd rather not have them in the house. Had fox squirrels in the insulation between ceiling and roof of my studio, my first summer here. Stinking up the place and sifting pink fiberglass scraps down onto my work. Finally found a gap in the siding, under the eaves, where they were getting in. Waited till daytime when they were out foraging, and nailed 1/4-inch hardware cloth (steel mesh) over the hole. Found lots of toothmarks around the edge later, but they weren't able to get back in.

They regularly get revenge by burying thousands of acorns in our front lawn.

We had greyjacks--California ground squirrels--for about half of last summer, during which they burrowed under the foundation of the house, into the crawl space, where I was worried they'd tear up all the expensive new insulation. Don't know what happened, though, they disappeared around mid-August. Pretty things, like polka-dotted grey squirrels. Still see them a little north of us, in the filbert orchards along River Road.