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Old 09-01-2021, 05:25 AM
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Feeding bread to squirrels has the lovely side effect of molding in the squirrels’ caches and destroying the good quality food they saved up for the winter. If you want to keep the squirrel population down by starving them, then feed them bread.

Really. Never feed any wildlife anything.