you have just two choices.
(1) let it go on YOUR property(It will come back) or
(2) Put him down.
That's it. Two choices. You can't take him to the city park. You
can't take him to "the woods." You can't "take" him anywhere, you
only have the above two choices.
Number two is the best. I'm not being cruel. There are definite reasons for this:
If you release him somewhere else, and that animal has any diseases,
(and they all do) you have just moved those disease(s) that much
further. You moved that animal much faster and further than Mother
Nature would, and in the process, perhaps affecting other animals
quicker, making for more carriers and vectors of diseases that can
affect you and me, your children and your pets too.
Besides, if you let that squirrel go, you don't think he's going to
stay in the woods/park/forest do you? Not for one New York Minute,
he's not! He's going to head for another structure. He might even
find his way back to YOUR place, you can't be sure unless you take him
miles and miles, in a zig-zag pattern. Even then, squirrels sometimes
find their way back. Kind of a tiresome ordeal if you have to
relocate a half dozen squirrels or more.
And don't think "he'll be happy" because you took him to the
woods/park/forest where there are lots of other squirrels. Believe me
when I tell you that ALL the squirrels will be unhappy. There is no
squirrel, including his own mother, that will welcome him. There's
just no way in the world he's going to be able to establish his very
own territory, so he's not going to stay where you dropped him. He'll
be chased out post haste, he'll just "head for the light" - someone's
house - find some flaw, then find his way in, BINGO, instant squirrel
problem. (Even though I use the term "he," it is just as often, or
even more so, that the females do this.)
One final thing. If the Game Warden sees you, or if someone reports
you translocating animal(s), there's a big fat fine for that. That's
ANY animal, dogs and cats included.
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