Squirrels are just Rats with better P.R.
I don't have a forested area, squirrels have to risk their lives to cross a highway and road to get to my yard. But one does.
The cat hates it too. I've been watching it. It stores nuts in my Pine trees /more

(not the same squirrel, I didn't have my camera)

Squirrels aren't allowed in my yard. (Except TIM 😎 )
We've tried to live in harmony but they keep breaking the rules. I caught it on the patio deck, behind a shed, & yesterday in my apple tree on the marsh. I reached over it squirrel to pick apples. It was frozen in place, nowhere to go, trapped. No escape route!
@Rasta Squirrels eat our apples on the tree before we can pick them.
@ldmay65 I never thought it was them, I caught a crow with a full apple in its mouth yesterday