"Don't think, feeeel! It's like a finger pointing away to the moon…[SLAP] Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory".
To be honest, if I were a landlord, and someone was keeping a squirrel, I would have it removed too. Those things urinate and eat wires like there's no tomorrow.
That would make it the most inefficient breeding program in the universe.
That would be like keeping chickens, letting them breed and then harvesting them every 12000 years…