Chipmunks - Good or Bad?

Golfgar4 · Jun 12, 2003

( Have you considered obtaining a litter of Manx kittens?? )

Uh, no I haven't - for 3 reasons. 1) I don't think our dog would take too kindly to losing her place as "an only child". 2) I've never heard of the beasts before. and 3) I hate cats! /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif No offense to any cat lovers out there! But to me, cats are the crabgrass on the lawn of life! (Snoopy)

Actually, I was pretty severally clawed by a cat as a kid, so I just flat stay away from the critters! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

But thanks for the response! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif And as far a shooting 'em goes, well, that's just not an option unless I want to find out if they have chipmunks in the local lock up! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

PBMAX · Jun 12, 2003

I was going to ask if he had any cats and if so they must be slackers. Manx HU!! they sound cool. At our house we have 2 male tabbies and on female calico and an 8 yr old jack russell(J.J. rodent catcher extrodinair /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif). So I'm sure you can see I have few rodent problems near the house. At our place if it is on 4leggs and doesn't bark or meow it better be realy smart and sneaky and even faster if it plans to be around long.

Maybe you could smoke them out of their hole(not easy) I used to do that as a kid some times it works some times not. But we used to try water or smoke and try to pop them all with bb gun as they run out...

Golfgar4 · Jun 12, 2003

( Either find the burrow and dump poison down it or light off one of the gas bombs in there. )

Well, I think the poison is not a factor as mentioned earlier because of the possibility of the pet getting some of it.

But I've not heard of the gas bomb option. Is this something that can be used in a populated neighborhood, or does it have to be used in more open, unoccupied areas? I mean, I wouldn't want to light one off and then have half the neighborhood kids keeling over! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Robert_in_NY · Jun 12, 2003

.22 with shot shells. Takes care of them fast and painless if they are within range. They are fun to watch but like ground hogs dig too many holes and around our pens it is not a nice thing for them to do to our deer. The deer get to playing and running and find a hole and get hurt. Chip and Dale had to go and moving them with live traps don't work. I use to do that, take them about 5 miles away and release them in a woods. New ones or family would just take over. Have to destroy them before they reproduce to reduce the overall population. So far we only have one or two running around now which is tolerable but if number three comes along.... /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif Good luck on your problem and hopefully you can get rid of them one way or the other. Take care.

Golfgar4 · Jun 12, 2003

( .22 with shot shells. )

Thanks Robert. Boy, with just about everyone recommending shooting the things, anyone know where I can get a really good silencer for a .22?? /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

mwechtal · Jun 12, 2003

GolfGar4,
A pellet gun will work just fine. They're not that noisy. Chipmunks are not that hard to kill.

I had to use a rat trap to get them out of our basement once. Rat traps are just like mouse traps, except bigger with stronger springs. They're maybe 2-3x longer and wider. With the stringer spring, you really don't want to snap it on yourself. I put peanut butter on the trigger, and got one about every 15 min. one evening. They're cute outside, but if they get inside they're dead.

Mike

Golfgar4 · Jun 12, 2003

Mike,

Thanks for the information. I'm not really worried about them getting inside - YET! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Maybe I can convince the wife that we should use the rat traps. At least with those, we know if we're having any success. With the moth balls, I guess you don't really know if you've got rid of them or if they just moved to a different spot.

PBMAX · Jun 12, 2003

Never tried it my self but had a friend in high school that swore it works...a baby bottle niple with good x in the tip is good for around 3-5shots and is not half bad...according to him...Apparantly he had a nieghbor who took it personel he had a taste for squirl...

BILL_K · Jun 12, 2003

But with the mothballs maybe with a little plannig
they will moveover to your niegbor"s yard. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

BillK

PBMAX · Jun 12, 2003

You could make a game out of it. At our last house the squirl were always after the bird seed so I started sittting on the back deck in the evenings and would put one pump in the daisy and use BB's and just take pop shots at them. After a few days they for some reason figured I was one lowsy shot. They soon begain to ignore the shooting... tsk tsk, Now in this case i was only out to torment not kill. So once they got comfi I would set up with one pump and pick one at the end of the range on 1 pump. Boy would that lil fellow be suprised.... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif I doubt they had fun but I sure injoyed it. I often used an old red rider for closer shots as I sayed I was only having fun and would rarely hit one with 1pump a bb has a lot of curve to it and with an unrifeld red rider u never new ware it would go...
But alas no trees are realy close enough to the new place and if I set a bird feeder out it would only feed the cats... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I find more than a few bird fethers now...

Ya know I think I'll go home toady and do some plinking....

Best of luck...I try to shoot for fun but in some cases you have to go for the perminent solution with pest of this nature...