The last set of states that require a permit if you're looking to own a squirrel as a pet is the following in alphabetical order: Delaware, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and ...

Flying squirrels prefer heavy deciduous forested areas for both food sources and sites for tree cavity nests. Trees like oaks and hickories with few owls provide good habitat, she said.

Katherine Grier’s “Pets in America” (2006) notes, “squirrel nests were raided systematically for their babies and young ones sold as pets. They were pretty and lively and, if caught young enough grew ...

Larkin Powell, director of UNL's School of Natural Resources, maintains a website to inform the public about the flying squirrels along and allow people to report sightings.

Yet, when people do encounter flying squirrels in my area of New York’s Catskill Mountains, the animals are often dismissed as pesky attic invaders, and their magic is downgraded to mere nuisance.

The southern flying squirrel — there is a northern species, from about central Michigan northward — is one of Ohio’s most common squirrels. Prior to settlement, it would have been the most ...

There was a time when cats were kept for use as mousers and dogs for hunting, and wild animals often were domesticated as pets. Of all the wild creatures tamed by Vermonters, squirrels were, by far, ...