You should have offered up to come and get the squirrel and relocate it. For a nominal fee. Show up, take payment, dump it out of the bucket, and then immediately relocate the animal to heaven.
Thought about it.
Latest update: Squirrel has died.
My wife said I should ask if there would be services? graveside or ?
Sometimes people trip and fall down stairs.
Sometimes assholes push people down stairs.
That doesn't mean "stairs are bad" nor does it make someone who pushes someone down the stairs any less of an asshole.