Our chipmunks? We've got them everywhere. I wonder at times if we don't have the ideal conditions for a chipmunk breeding ground: a porch under which they can burrow, birds who knock gobs of bird seed onto the ground, and a garage in which there is a bucket of bird seed which these little critters have discovered -- and out of which they sometimes jump and startle us when we walk into the garage.The other day I counted six under our bird feeder -- and they fill their mouths and go put the seeds in their pantry and return to do the same all over again -- all day long!
Well, what to do with them? Any advice?
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Get yourself a Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time. Or just let 'em run free ...
And does anyone have a suggestion for Woodchucks? We have both the chipmunk and chucks under the deck.
Get a Jack Russell terrier. Jack's find chipmunks (and squirrels, and moles, and rats) tasty snacks.
I need to rent out my Weeniedor. It's half lab and half dachshund. It's a mutation that combines the relentlessness of a weenie dog with the intelligence of a lab.
I've had a lot of dogs, and this is the most cuddly, loving, sweet one ever. She's so ugly, it's cute. If someone broke in our house, they'd be rubbing her tummy before they loaded up the TV.
But -- despite not even being knee-high, nothing is safe from it. It hunts every waking hour. Opossums, raccoons, snakes (3 this year alone), voles, squirrels, birds, turtles, rabbits, frogs, lizards, it doesn't matter. You'll see her in the yard with a foot of snake on each side of her snout, just shaking it like a polaroid picture. The largest rat I have ever seen in my life, the size of a rabbit I swear, lasted about 2 seconds. She's not much larger than a big cat, but she's gotten two of them that I know of (and she carries the scars).
She would eat 20 chipmunks and sit by the hole for hours in the rain, ignoring our calls and waiting for more.
I had a chipmunk problem once.
It can easily be taken care of with a 5 gallon bucket, a 2X4, and some sunflower seeds.
Fill the 5 gallon bucket half way with water. Cover the water with the seeds, lean the 2X4 up as a ramp. They will jump in, but cannot get out.
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