topic Re: Chipmunk Wars in Garden

Chipmunk Wars

Snoopp — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:03:54 GMT

I’m fighting with a chipmunk who dug a hole near my front walkway. He won’t leave. I filled the hole back up a few times but he came back. I tried putting a few rocks on top but he squeezed past them. I caught him watching me when I turned around. He was in my driveway observing. Stubborn 🐿

I have to check today and see if he gave up.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Sadiesadie — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:25:34 GMT

@Snoopp : Ooh, give him my address😊 Used to have chipmunks but not any more. I'm sure it can get annoying but love those little personalities.

Good luck with the little critter.

Just thought of something. Out here in the desert we've gotten what are called cactus squirrels. They don't like to be seen but can create mounds of dirt in the yard burying the decorative rock.

I asked a wildlife rescuer I know and he told me to take a shovel and go straight down into the tunnel/hole. Don't turn the soil over but just straight down...should slide right in. If the ground is hard you've missed it and have to move a bit to get it to slide in. He said it should be like cutting thru butter.

He said it disrupts their tunnel. Then spray the area with a Pine Sol solution. The Pin Sol masks their urine smell which is a trail they follow. You may have to do it again if/when he pops up again where you don't want him.

Wonder if it'll work with chipmunks. Hope you let me know if you have any luck, if you try it

We were able to channel him/them to areas where it didn't matter.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Snoopp — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:54:32 GMT

Thanks for the tip! I checked the hole and it looks like he didn't attempt to get back into the tunnel so maybe he went somewhere else. There are plenty of places for him so I sure hope so. I may have won this chipmunk war.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Patriot3 — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:57:50 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
I’m fighting with a chipmunk who dug a hole near my front walkway. He won’t leave. I filled the hole back up a few times but he came back. I tried putting a few rocks on top but he squeezed past them. I caught him watching me when I turned around. He was in my driveway observing. Stubborn 🐿

I have to check today and see if he gave up.

@Snoopp I have had a chipmunk in the past couple of years and probably will this year, too. I got a humane trap from Amazon, baited it w/peanut butter, caught him, took him out into the country and let him go. Good luck

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Snoopp — Tue, 26 May 2020 14:59:48 GMT

@Patriot3I looked at these traps. How did you release it from the trap? I wonder if there is a button or door you press. I don't want to get bitten by the critter.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

fthunt — Tue, 26 May 2020 15:10:08 GMT

@Snoopp You will NEVER win the war until "C" is removed - one way or another.

"C" have 2 exits - an escape route.............so you may not see him to day - he's busy digging funnels somewhere else.

After 30 years..........he's been building sand dunes outside with my foundation soil. ...3 are gone - 2 more I'm watching.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Snoopp — Tue, 26 May 2020 15:15:55 GMT

@fthunt LOL if I don't know he's there, I don't care. Just don't mess with my walkway.

My old golden retriever used to think they were toys and would catch them if they were slow. She killed one once. She would have loved to have gone after this one.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

fresh kitty — Tue, 26 May 2020 17:54:36 GMT

Your lucky I have them living in the walls of my house and I plug things up but they keep on finding new ways to get in. They think they own this house and they take my bird seed from the birds. How can something as cute as they are be so sneaky?

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Patriot3 — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:02:57 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
@Patriot3I looked at these traps. How did you release it from the trap? I wonder if there is a button or door you press. I don't want to get bitten by the critter.

@Snoopp I wore gloves. Put the p.butter on, way back, with a knife. The door is easy to pull up. Just be sure you are pointing the door away from you when you release him, raise the door and he will run like crazy! They are easy to operate.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Icegoddess — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:21:31 GMT

@Snoopp I feel your pain. I have a spot between the storm gutter which is surrounded by concrete and the driveway where it enters the garage. I tried the rock thing. I tried screening, they chewed right through it. I think what I currently have there is considered hardware cloth? Behind that is a very stiff metal gutter guard, and behind that large rocks. The area next to the house that looks like a gap in the pic is actually the black gutter guard that is behind the hardware cloth. I have large rocks covering the curved area because the gutter guard is too stiff to curve. BTW, I know the plant in the picture is invasive, but it has nowhere to go and I'm happy to have anything growing in that spot. The dirt there is really bad.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Snoopp — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:49:32 GMT

@Icegoddessit's very hard to deal with when the ground is uneven, isn't it.

I lost. Chipmunk has returned and had the nerve to watch me cover up his hole again. I used cardboard and dirt. I need to find some 1/4 inch mesh screen. I dumped kitty litter down the hole cause I had no gravel. I am sure it will do nothing and the critter is laughing.

There were two and now only one though. I think a stray cat might have gotten one. My camera showed a cat and also a large racoon nearby so maybe they will get this chipmunk if I can't.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

cindyNC — Tue, 26 May 2020 19:51:14 GMT

The last time my niece caught a mouse - and went to dispose of it - until her twin 5 year olds decided to name it. I think it resided in an unused aquarium for a bit.

Be grateful you don't have little kids around who might want to feed it!

Good luck!

Re: Chipmunk Wars

JustJazzmom — Tue, 26 May 2020 20:24:56 GMT

Landscape fabric would work to cover the hole or even bird netting (unless it chews through it). Do you have any castor oil or ammonia? Perhaps some dumped into the hole might deter it because of the odor.

I once stopped a juvenile raccoon from tipping over a garbage pail by putting ammonia inside the garbage pail and the bag itself. It never came back to it.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Mom2Dogs — Tue, 26 May 2020 23:02:49 GMT

@Snoopp did your chipmunk dig a hole that I call a mud hole? The mud is on top of the ground with a hole in the center?

Re: Chipmunk Wars

goldensrbest — Wed, 27 May 2020 14:14:13 GMT

I have many chipmunks, they are very cute,they keep one of my goldens entertained.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Icegoddess — Thu, 28 May 2020 04:09:18 GMT

@Mom2Dogs wrote:
@Snoopp did your chipmunk dig a hole that I call a mud hole? The mud is on top of the ground with a hole in the center?

That sounds like a crawdad hole.

Re: Chipmunk Wars

Icegoddess — Thu, 28 May 2020 04:11:34 GMT

@JustJazzmom If they can chew through screening they would make quick work of landscape fabric or bird netting.

I tried to use bird netting to keep them out of a potted plant once and a snake got caught up in it. Poor thing. I spent quite awhile cutting him out of it.