those evil little b@stards are nothing but rats with bushy tails & good PR.
Had one of those little B@stards as you say take up residence in my attic. Waited at the exit point for him for 45 minutes. He finally came out, jumped to a tree and appeared to smile at me knowing that at 10 feet above ground he was relatively safe, till I blasted the sucker. My wife was bit perturbed but the neighbors have become accustomed to an occasional gun shot around my subdivision for the past 20 years so I got no blowback! The only “pot” he went into was the refuse can.