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Chipmunks SUCK!!!

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#1 · (Edited)
Never been that many around here, mostly mice, shrus, moles n squirrels BUT this year I've got 6! I thought the 2 this last year was a lot, gone many years w/o any. Actually saw one run across the street in front of my truck just down the road and some over at my neighbors.

But that is not the worst of it. Recently was carrying some junk n walking into my kitchen. Herd what sound like plastic dropped and started to look around tah see what dropped. But then i saw a chipmunk run when i started to poke around by the trash can :mad: Noise was him dropping him nut as i startled him. After that i was in another room on my PC and dude comes in carrying a nut like we roommates. Yelled at him, he dropped that nut n chased him out. If i was faster I'd of stomped him as he ran by feet. Still the mice around here have come up to me laying under a car in my garage LOL

Now i do set traps year round and live by several farm fields(corn atm), normally it's just mice n an occasional shru in my laundry/furnace/water-heater room.

I discovered these covered traps, since even rat-traps will not stop a chipmunk all the time(triggered n empty but sometimes i find them dead away from the trap). Also we got clever mice, that i need to use faster rat traps for. BUT peanut butter don't last long and yah gotta keep putting fresh in the trap.

Until i accidentally put a bait-block on the other side of one of the covered traps. Got 6 in that sucker so far and other garage trap nada. Those outside traps are nasty cause i may have been slow to get a few of the past chipmunks LOL So i bought a new pair n set one by the trash with peanut butter and the other with a bait-block, in one end(too large) with that side taped off. Even if it chews thru the tape 💀

Just figured I'd share my recent success and yes I'm well aware of smelly water/coolant bucket pop-can traps. I like the low maintenance bait-blocks and put it into a dead-end, we'll see if the tape one works.
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#6 ·
I bought a pellet rifle that i still need to sight. Well mostly for squirrels & other pest, it's legal to shoot critters if they are destroying your propriety around here. Still I live in a town and no discharging of firearms regardless, sure some will say to blah blah blah but cameras are everywhere these days ;)
 
#4 ·
My Gordon Setter went NUTZ the other day chasing a rodent in our laundry room. He was on it like a hobo on a hot dog! I thought it was a mouse and it kept squeaking every time my 75 lb. dog grabbed it. Being a bird dog, he has a VERY soft mouth. I kept egging him on "Get it Boy! GET IT!" 😆. It somehow it got past him and ran back out the open door and that's when I saw the critters' tail. Yep, a chipmunk. Then the little guy ran over and up a big cedar tree and began chirping it's ass off, and another ran to it and the scared shitless chippy was telling their story and then the other one joined in scolding my dog for about 10 minutes.🤣
There are 100's of them around here. We live across the street from 100+ acres of forest.👍
 
#7 ·
5 gallon bucket of water filled to about 2.5-3 gallon mark and a hand full of bird seed tossed on top of the water will help keep their population to a minimum! My wife thinks the little bastards are so cute! She’s in Key West for 13 days right now so I have alligator alkatraz in full effect as we speak!
 
#11 ·
No chipmunks here, but I have declared war on red squirrels here in San Antonio. I'm a live and let live kind of guy, but they did several thousand $ in property damage to my house, so it was game on. I use a break barrel .22 caliber pellet gun with a scope. Our outside cats help out, too.

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#12 ·
Yah those tree rats got my truck O2 wires more than once!

I should get one of these or sim style, seen a few brands