Squirrels are, of course, rodents.
And if you see one all wet, with its bushy tail sodden and thin, it looks like a rat all right. How this came to be is interesting. For years I have been feeding crows. Often I will announce the availability of food by using a hand-made, wooden crow call. At some point last year, Shirley began to notice that when the crow call went off, food would appear in the yard.