It depends if there rabid or not.

Counter point: I would simply not leave them.

Sunflowers are steeped in symbolism and meanings. For many they symbolize optimism, positivity, a long life and happiness for fairly obvious reasons. The less obvious ones are loyalty, faith and luck.

I have a squirrels nest in a pine tree in my backyard and these squirrels are Chonky. They steal sunflower seeds from the bird feeder and take nibbles out of my vegetable garden. They also steal treats from my dog.

TLDR: get a pine tree, bird feeder, vegetable garden and dog. Feed everyone including yourself.

If you like beer, there’s a RI squirrel beer club that meets monthly at the dumpster outside a different brewery once a month

I'm not expecting anywhere to be crime free.

When people get upset about a crime being posted, and they try to brush it under the rug, that's an attempt to normalize it.

It’s not normalizing, if you expect any place, let alone a city, to be crime free then you’re searching for something that doesn’t exist.

We have a squirrel that leaves us apple and Pear cores on our windowsill. The previous homeowners must have had a squirrel friend. I'm on to you OP.

Yeah, this is important and valuable advice. Unfortunately, the best thing we can do for any wild animal is to leave them alone and prevent them from accessing our food and trash in anyway. Just enjoy watching them when chance brings you together!

Not a property owner I see. I used to feed and get a kick out of the tree rats that were around here.

Then one winter they found a way into the attick. Squirrels will eat your house. Store a car in your yard for a bit? They will eat the wiring.

Try to put some bird feeders around? (Birds are nice.) They eat seeds. So do crummy squirrels.

>https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/providence-shootings-dropped-by-nearly-half-in-2022/

It's 2023, and the year hasn't started out well in terms of violent crime in Providence.

It’s a trap

>Almost 200,000 people live in the city. Four notable acts of violence this weekend.

It's disappointing and disturbing that you (and several others on here) go out of your way to try to normalize the violent crime in Providence.

>Newsflash: violence in the city. Better get scared.

That's some tough talk coming from a guy living in Warren.

1. Get a squirrel costume

2. stand until one of them approaches you

3. teach it sign language

4. tell it to bring its homies

5. run a gang of squirrels

6. profit

I found my dogs Reddit account

No in Providence dude.

Oh was that you doing that right next to the trail? Good luck finding me.

There are no off-leash places at Lincoln Woods. Please be respectful towards those that don't want strange off leash dogs running up to them and their leashed dog. It's rude and dangerous. Doesn't matter if your dog was "trained for it"

Have you tried Meetup?

> Single (duh)

Slanderous! What about PVD's ENM population??

ETA: since it seems to be going over some people's head here, this comment's intention is just to be a little lighthearted joke!

The best thing you can do for them might be either occasional feedings of shell-in nuts(not fed by hand, but left behind for them - feel free to observe from a distance though!), or setting up a small feeding spot in a squirrel safe and friendly area, away from humans to keep them from being a nuisance and potentially trapped and killed, as well as a spot safe from predators.

As another commenter mentioned, it's not really a good idea to socialize with wild squirrels very much because they can then become a nuisance to other people and animal control will get involved. Plus squirrels can be vectors of disease to the same extent that rats and mice are, and they're more prone than either to have rabies.

Lol, mine too. We’ve had to replace 3 screens as a result of him crashing into windows trying to dive bomb them in the yard

Unsalted peanuts, specifically. The salted ones can be bad for their health.

I’ll look into that, thank you so much!