Flaming arrows? Squirrels see their brethren get popped by bullets going so fast they don't see it go by every day. They run away, eat some nuts. Back on squirrel duty.
If a squirrel see's one of it's brethren lanced through or pinned to a tree with a flaming arrow, it will social squirrel media a picture and you will never see any type of rodent. again. Your pets will probably get a little freaked out too, 'tho.
Would it be worse for a squirrel to see one of it's brethren explode like a firework after getting 50,000 watted or worse to see one of it's brethren pinned to a tree with a flaming arrow? Imagine you're the squirrel. Be the squirrel.
I might be approaching one toke over the line...