i know, but even those squirrels are now dependent on handouts, they've grown up for generations now expecting those hand outs as part of their diet...they aren't wild animals anymore, and would die if anything happened to their source of food. they no longer behave like wild animals. they've been turned into a menagerie of skittish pets.
the best thing you can do for any animal is look at it from a distance, and then go the hell away.
just to clarify, i'm not a peta weirdo...i'm an entirely independent weirdo. i don't think eating animals is murder, but i think mistreating them should land you in hell, after a stop in jail. human intervention is just that, intervention, and all experiments are effected by those conducting the experiments.