Squirrels, love to hate them or hate to love them? They're so darned funny, but then also such a pain when they steal your just ripening strawberries, or dig up a tulip bulb take a bite and throw it aside! Someone in my neighborhood feeds them peanuts because I find a lot of rotten peanuts when I'm gardening XD I'd never kill one.

I've actually seen a rat in my bird feeder It must have crawled long the tree branch and down onto the feeder. We have a lot of ivy in our area, so I assume they live there. Not much I can do. Of course that was before I had dogs. Now the small creatures only venture into my yard early in the morning or at night after the noisy patrol are asleep :P I kind of miss the wildlife to be honest!