menacing shipmunks

[w5pv]

I like what Mary B came up with you could do that with your lawn mower and it would be easy to move from one site to the other.

[Yodogsandman]

Walk a block or two over and play Johnny Appleseed with a bunch of sunflower seeds. Look for a yard with World Wildlife Federation, Humane Society or PETA stickers, they like em to come and stay with them.

[Taylor]

1. Sit on back porch with cup of coffee and pellet rifle.
2.Shoot said rodent.
3.Have hound fetch critter
4.Throw over fence into vacant lot or place in garbage can.

I killed 17 this way last fall,only 2 so far this year.They'll show up when the acorns fall.

[Hardcast416taylor]

Close range use .22 bird shot.Robert

[FISH4BUGS]

Any ideas on how to get rid of chipmunks? Can't use poison ' cause of the little kids next door. Can't shoot'm 'cause I live too far into town. I have only seen them one time, but the mess they leave is getting to be too much.

Our cats keep them down and it supplies endless entertainment for them.

[Silver Eagle]

Pellet rifle. Find one that is quiet. Some can barely be heard out of yard. Make sure of clean kills so neighbors do not find on other side of fence.

[runfiverun]

I still think this is the way to go.

[GhostHawk]

I think in that situation I would buy a 10' length of 1.5" pvc pipe and make 5 asian style rat traps.

They use bamboo, a 3-4' wooden stick is the spring, it goes through a slot in the pipe at the far end.

On the business end you have a slit for a snare, and a couple inches farther up you have a square hole for a trigger. Trigger has a little square edge on it so if it gets bumped it releases, pulling the snare tight.

Easy to build, easy to set with some seeds, small enough to keep domestic critters out of it.
And easy to see when it needs emptying and resetting.

Plus an open ended pipe is an invitation to explore for a chipmunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwWEZNPi2Q

[CASTER OF LEAD]

Juicy fruit chewing gum. Just unwrap the sticks and drop them around the yard & in any flower beds you may have. They eat it and cant pass it. Kills em Dead. - Caster

[Taylor]

I still think this is the way to go.

Damn that's funny!!!

[blackthorn]

Would that chewing gum trick work for mice??

[Smoke4320]

Juicy fruit chewing gum. Just unwrap the sticks and drop them around the yard & in any flower beds you may have. They eat it and cant pass it. Kills em Dead. - Caster

If you use double mint would you kill twice as many ?

[SteveS]

Victor snap traps are the cheapest, easiest and most effective way to clean them out.

[SP5315]

I've got a 15 gallon opentop quarter drum, think smaller version of a 55 gallon barrel. Set it next to something they can climb up on on the outside of the drum. Put about an inch of wild bird feed in the bottom. They'll get into the drum for the feed and can't scale the smooth steel walls to get out. Then do what you need to do with em. Works well with squirrels too.

[CASTER OF LEAD]

If you use double mint would you kill twice as many ?

I have never tried it, but there might be a new add campaign in there some where.

[CASTER OF LEAD]

Would that chewing gum trick work for mice??

I imagine it would. I do know it works on the Chipmunks. A fella i worked for over summer vacation when i was in High school ( many, many moons ago) showed me. His wife couldnt keep flowers (bulb type) in her beds. Lil Buggers dig the bulbs up as fast as she'd plant em. lol
Try it it may just be the ticket. - CASTER