Posted on 04/24/2020 6:55:12 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj
Not a kitten video, but a chipmunk one I found cute and funny. This one enjoys eating strawberry treats left out by a human.
Video, 3 minutes & 41 seconds
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Chipmunks are cute, I wish I had them around my house
If you’re trying to grow a vegetable garden, you do not want! Nor their bigger cousins, squirrels.
Also, the video is cute for about 30 seconds, but after a minute or so, you’ve seen a chipmunk eating strawberries, and then you might notice there’s two and a half minutes left of the same.
Chipmunks need to be exterminated.
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lol. I like when the plate of strawberries appears and he/she stuffs them in his/her cheeks.
Yeah, it’s adorable.
You’re right. Damn things are very destructive. Lucky, I have an excellent squirrel dog and a very accurate Ruger 10-22.
I shoot cats that endanger my chipmunks. After being struck three or four times with a BB the cats finally learn to stay away.
My Chipmunks like sunflower seeds. They can store prodigious quantities in their cheeks. They have fantastic memory and return to a spot where I put out seeds years later.
My wife finally layed down the law and would not permit them in my office because once in a while they ventured into other parts of the house.
I used to have a small strawberry patch by the patio of my townhouse. Every year just when the berries were ripening the little so and so who only appeared during strawberry season would take one bite out of each strawberry. I never got a strawberry out of that patch.
I can vouch for that.
I admit, I admire the utter industriousness of chipmunks and their seemingly expresso induced lifestyles, but...they are indeed destructive.
And I find them visually appealing with their sleek coats and attractive markings.
Pretty smart for little creatures, too. I can’t bring myself to kill them with the water traps, just isn’t my style or inclination, if I could trap them I would, but they have a degree of canniness that keeps them out of the living traps, though I understand the drowning traps kill them quite readily.
Now, I feel much the same about squirrels, except they are far more like rats to me than chipmunks are.
I had an experiment going the last few days-I have caught ten squirrels. I assume that catching squirrels is an exercise in futility, but I had a plethora of them, so I wondered if I could thin the herd by trapping and relocating them a few miles away just to see what would happen.
They have a difficult time resisting peanuts in the shell, so I put a few in, and within the hour, I get a squirrel. I got nine of them this way in short succession, but...the tenth one seemed to be quite canny.
It got the peanut out three times, and I discerned on one of them that he dug under the trap and pulled the peanut out from the cage trap underneath, due to the condition of the ground, and the other times, I think he rolled the cage and the peanuts got close to the sides where he could reach them.
Well.
My wife was laughing at me, because I was in a pitched battle of wits with a squirrel, and the squirrel was clearly thumbing its nose at me.
I had to break out the tactical nuclear weapon: Peanut Butter. Squirrels can resist a peanut, but they are incapable of resisting peanut butter. So I got a small plastic Dixie cup (the kind you use when brushing your teeth or for mouthwash) poked a couple holes in the sides, tie wrapped it to the center of the trap, and put some peanut butter in it.
Hehehe...no contest!
I imagine when I put the trap in the car, for them, it must be like what we would experience if aliens abducted us in their flying saucers...but I put him in the car, and released him at the site with all his relatives there.
And my hypothesis was correct-every time I came back, thinking I was done, there were two more squirrels than there had been before...so my experiment was over!
Disappointing. I watched the whole video, and never once did it break out in high-pitched harmony.
I had no problem watching the whole thing.....it was cute.
If you’ve ever had them get into your house and destroy your property, you might think different. They are rodents, just like rats and mice. Do you want them in your house?
They multiply and or bring their friends back with them.
I had a neighbor who kept catching raccoons in a live trap that were eating all the cat food. He didn’t have a heart to kill them so would turn them loose miles away. I told he they would come back. I spray painted the tail of one red before he drove off. A day later the red tail was back at his place.
It’s a video, dude. I post these to lift the spirits of folks here whom are continuously inundated with doom and gloom of the ChiCom virus threads ad infinitum. Instead of some folks enjoying the couple minutes of seeing something cute and funny, I get folks who seemingly enjoy taking a giant dump all over it to say how horrible “fill-in-the-blank animal” is.
I’d rather wish if you can’t enjoy the video, just say nothing and don’t ruin it for everyone else.
HaHa!
Great story!
You should have terminated them with extreme prejudice, however. (here in Alabama, someone would thank you for the great stew ingredient!)
Or at least tag the ones you released so you could see if they were returnees.
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