Several Tips to Get Rid of Chipmunks.
I am having a tree stump removed and the tree specialist saw chipmunks had tunnels in the stump...so I am also looking for ways to dislodge them!
As a kid we would tie a string on a cardboard milk cartoon, through the string over the clothesline, lay the carton on the ground with the pouring end open. Then put peanuts on the ground in a trail into the cartoon, with some peanuts inside. Then hid and hold onto the string waiting for a chipmunk.
When the chipmunk went inside you’d pull on the string - lifting the cartoon vertically and the chipmunk was trapped. We had a big homemade cage so we could keep them as pets. Somehow they always managed to escape that cage, and we would add more wire mesh, etc. Nothing helped - they STILL figured out how to escape.
Years later I figured that my parents must have let them go every night!
There are less time-consuming (and less entertaining” ways to kill them. Look up a “bucket mouse trap” on youtube - easy to make and very effective so I’ve heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSk79YcuIRQ
Boiling water?