When I was a teen my sister had a Siamese cat that for three nights in a row brought live baby squirrells into the house.
We lived in town but were building a new house a ways out of town, squirrells were brought to the new house and reaised by my mother in the dining room. We eventually released them into the wild.
About a year later mom was walking in the woods and a squirrell came up to her, sat on her shoulder whilst she walked around for a bit. Guess at least one lived in the wild.
My favorite hunting is stalking squirrells still. Yes, they go in the dinner pot.