Was it a grey squirrell or a red one.... Red ones are protected..... Grey ones are vermin...
My mate a few years ago had a problem with rats.
He bought an air rifle and started shooting them..
Some were good shots, and some weren"t... The rat hobbled away..and died somewhere else,
His wife complained about it being cruel not killing them in one go..
He went to the hardware shop and bought some humane rat traps..
Several weeks later at the beginning of November one of the traps was triggered...
"At last, we have caught it" the wife said....
"Yes. Give it here..."
My mate picked up the trap with the rat in... "Are you happy now love, no harm done to the rat..."
"Oh yes, let it go at the end of the garden"
As he walked down to the end of the garden, he threw it onto the bonfire, then said "Humane rat trap my arse..."