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.
You’re right. Damn things are very destructive. Lucky, I have an excellent squirrel dog and a very accurate Ruger 10-22.
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!
I had no problem watching the whole thing.....it was cute.