or maybe more accurately, they've adopted him. If you followed him, you know he's besties with squirrels Maxine and Richard, and somehow Hood Rat Raymond has become a member of the family ...

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However, if not careful, you may also invite unwelcome guests like rats and squirrels who can't distinguish that the food isn't for them. No one wants to invite a nest of rats into their outdoor ...

Speeding drivers using a road as a "rat run" have been blamed for reducing a fragile population of red squirrels. A small colony of reds, which are native to the UK, lives at Widdale, near Hawes ...