Chipmunk trapping

[Jeff423]

I've got a problem with chipmunks tunneling around my house. I bought a trap and if successful should I relocate them or make other disposal arrangements? Also I've been told peanuts are the best bait. Any other suggestions?

Jeff

 

[fiasconva]

Check with your state laws about relocating. It is illegal in some states for prevention of spreading diseases.

 

[bigwheelzip]

I've got a problem with chipmunks tunneling around my house. I bought a trap and if successful should I relocate them or make other disposal arrangements? Also I've been told peanuts are the best bait. Any other suggestions?

Saucers of beer.

 

[Watchdog]

If the chipmunks have their burrows around your house, and haven't made any incursions to the inside of your house, what's the problem? I have chipmunks around my house, but they've shown no inclination to come inside (like up through downspouts).

I leave them alone. They aren't hurting a thing. And they're fun to watch on the rare occasions I spot one.

 

[BAM-BAM]

IMHO........Chippy's are the reason the .22 was invented!!!

Hunting chippy's at 20-25 yds is great practice for just about anything else................................

 

[BAM-BAM]

IMHO........Chippy's are the reason the .22 was invented!!!

Hunting chippy's at 20-25 yds is great practice for just about anything else................................



Watchdog....given a good food supply they multiply like their larger cousins ..... the one's w/o tail hair!!!

 

[ben_g1]

Get a large garbage can and fill with water (a garden hose will not supply water fast enough) and pour down their main hole. Have another person with a glass jar situated to cover the hole when they pop up. They will go right in the jar then slide the jar away from the hole, presto ya got a ground squirrel in a jar.

Oh, and before you say they have many hole openings they can come out of, they will always come out the hole the waters coming in from. Did this all the time as a kid.

 

[Watchdog]

Watchdog....given a good food supply they multiply like their larger cousins ..... the one's w/o tail hair!!!

No, they don't. Your average brown rat breeding pair can produce around 2,000 new rats a year. Rats breed year round, every chance they get (kinda like humans

).

Chipmunks breed once in early spring, then once in early summer and usually produce litters of no more than six each time. The Western Chipmunk only breeds once a year. Chipmunks aren't even in the same ballpark as rats in any category.

Chipmunks are kinda territorial, too. I've had them around my house for decades and never seen more than two during any one season.

Chipmunks for target practice? I'd hide sweetgum balls in the grass to shoot at before I'd kill a harmless little animal for fun.

 

[susieqz]

i think there should be an open season on people that ''relocate''
their problems to the countryside.
come around my place n expect gunfire.
PEOPLE LIVE HERE.
WE DON'T WANT YOUR PESTS !
you trap 'em, you kill 'em.

 

[Rule3]

You want to shoot this cute little guy?

Chipmunks, Chipmunk Pictures, Chipmunk Facts - National Geographic

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I have the same problem in my yard, they dig holes under foundations, cement lawnmower ramps. They are a pest at my house and I've tried live traps, rat traps, chewing gum, etc.

I would use my 12 gauge on them if I lived in the country. They are cute, but I hate the little suckers.

 

[explorer13421]

Chipmunks are cute, but they are rodents first. They can be vectors for fleas, ticks and other carriers of disease. They can be very destructive by chewing on things. One or more built a nest on the engine of a car and it was just by luck that the nest was discovered before the car was driven. I do not know if the engine would get hot enough where the nest was to set the nest on fire, but am glad we did not find our the hard way. Chipmunk tunneling can lead to damage.

 

[K Frame Keith]

I couldn't bring myself to hurt one but my dog eats them like popcorn.

 

[waxman]

A couple of years ago chipmunks built a nest/pile of debris under the supercharger cover on my car. Then chewed a sparkplug wire. If it wasn't for my 15 year old fire extinguisher I would have lost my car! I hate um.

 

[Ron M.]

Alvin and his two cohorts (Simon and Theodore) are rats with better haircuts....we had problems with Beechy Ground Squirrels in San Jose, they burrowed under our patio and foundation. Left holes everywhere. Can't use a .22 in San Jose...so a .177 air rifle had to suffice. Nothing cute about those little buggers...dog ignored them, too much work to chase...ten pumps of the Crossman and they were history. When wife and I visited a park in Nevada, the little chipmunks were under the picnic table, expecting to be fed...got a size ten in the tush for their troubles...

 

[BAM-BAM]

No, they don't. Your average brown rat breeding pair can produce around 2,000 new rats a year. Rats breed year round, every chance they get (kinda like humans

).

Chipmunks breed once in early spring, then once in early summer and usually produce litters of no more than six each time. The Western Chipmunk only breeds once a year. Chipmunks aren't even in the same ballpark as rats in any category.

Chipmunks are kinda territorial, too. I've had them around my house for decades and never seen more than two during any one season.

Chipmunks for target practice? I'd hide sweetgum balls in the grass to shoot at before I'd kill a harmless little animal for fun.

LOL..... at the cabin in the Allegheny's Mom and Dad would feed the birds and squirrels..... we had to have monthly hunts to thin the herd....... 20-25/ month ( within 50 yds of the cabin) and no apparent change in the local population..... here in the "Burbs of the Burgh" our last cat was leaving a gift on the front stoop at least 4-5 times a week May/June to Oct...........

 

[RobertJ.]

I have yet to meet a cat that didn't like chipmunk!

 

[e3mrk]

I use those smoke bombs you get at the hardware store,I just light one and shove it down the hole and cover it with dirt and bingo no more chipmunk.
For the ones that get under my deck I use ground hot pepper flakes so they walk through them and get a nasty taste and it burns their eyes.After a while they decide to move on.

 

[pharmer]

Chipmunk, it's what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner if'n you're a Red Tailed Hawk. Joe

 

[bamabiker]

My wife puts out bird seed all the time. Birds, squirrels and chipmunks love her.
A year or so ago I was looking out the bedroom window watching a chipmunk run around in the yard. Like a flash a hawk swooped in and carried the little fellow off for a meal.
The other day there was a young chipmunk eating bird seed by the front porch. A little later looking out the bedroom window again I see one of the local cats eating something. By the time I went outside there was nothing left but the tail.
My wife don't realize what all she is feeding.