Repel squirrels with scents, plants they dislike, pets, netting for trees ... For one, they're a good source of pest control. Squirrels in your yard will snack on crickets, grasshoppers ...

In New York, it’s illegal to keep animals like squirrels and raccoons as pets. So after receiving numerous complaints, the state Department of Environmental Conservation took the animals from ...

Spillane wants to prevent another situation like one in New York, where beloved Peanut the squirrel was taken from its owner and euthanized. Opponents say that keeping wildlife as pets is ...

Pets and wild animals such as birds and squirrels were all that remained of ... “Can we find some kind of happy medium? It’s a good thing to live in a landscape where you see other creatures ...

Feb. 19—The fate of P'Nut the gray squirrel and Fred the raccoon — wild animals that became illegal domestic pets in upstate New York — moved 11 Republican lawmakers who want to make New ...