Here lies Chipmunk(s). RIP

[alliecats]

A couple weeks ago, a little chipmunk family came around to our back porch. It looked like a mama chipmunk and three babies. I had never seen a chippie litter before, so I enjoyed watching them. Saturday I noticed there were only two chipmunk babies running around, then Sunday I saw a small chipmunk body under my neighbor's car. Today we came home and an adult chipmunk lay dead at the feet of the fierce hunter, KittyBuddy, a neighbor's cat that we feed. (I mean that we feed him with cat food, but apparently we are keeping him in rodents, as well.) I hope it was not the mother chipmunk.
I know it's silly. I know that chipmunks are pests and tear up the yard. And I know that's just how cats roll.
But it is still pitiful to see the little chipmunk bodies. RIP chipmunk family.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

We trapped 24 of those little buggers one summer. I was sure we had ONE in our garden. Trapped it, hauled it a county away and let it go...

...only to come home and find another one in the exact same spot munching on the birdfeed spilled from the trap we'd just hauled away. Finally gave up after lucky number 24.

BTW, I'm sure Spencer County was puzzled by the sudden infestation of 'munks.

 

[sweet angel]

I love seeing the chipmunks run across my deck. Unfortunately, so does my one dog. She's caught a few of them...as well as birds, squirrels, bunnies....

Poor little 'munks.

 

[tevagirl]

OMG! Did the one have a chocolaty chip nose?? Nooooo!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I love seeing the chipmunks run across my deck. Unfortunately, so does my one dog. She's caught a few of them...as well as birds, squirrels, bunnies....

Poor little 'munks.

We had a real cute one living in our neighbors yard in back of us. Used to run around in their yard and one of our dogs used to hang out in the backyard watching it. One night we were watching tv, my 12yo was sitting eating his ice cream...nice family quality time. I looked down at Sheena, our dog and wondered out loud why her mouth was so dirty (figured the "digger dog" had been digging in the backyard again). Well she stood up and spit the dead chipmunk out of her mouth--she'd fit the whole thing in her mouth. I almost threw up, my 12yo almost upchucked, and thankfully my DH was home to clean up yet another dead animal. Not the first time she'd brought one in, but the first time we'd witnessed it. YUCK!

 

[alliecats]

LOL, I've started the "You think you have a dead chipmunk story? I'll show you a dead chipmunk story!" thread.

Tigger & Belle, you win! At least my mutilated chipmunk family stayed OUTSIDE. I would have died if I had a dog do that. Bleghhh.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

LOL, I've started the "You think you have a dead chipmunk story? I'll show you a dead chipmunk story!" thread.

Hey, at least I TRIED to be humane!! And I have a lhasa apso -- the chipmunks are more likely to eat her than vice versa!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

LOL, I've started the "You think you have a dead chipmunk story? I'll show you a dead chipmunk story!" thread.

Tigger & Belle, you win! At least my mutilated chipmunk family stayed OUTSIDE. I would have died if I had a dog do that. Bleghhh.

Well, I do have other chipmunk stories, too. One is recent. We had one that would hang out on our porch and I enjoyed watching him hang out...until someone ran over the little bugger in our driveway. That one I got to clean up, and I don't do dead (actually dying) animals very well.

The other one was from my childhood when we had a pet chipmunk (or that one could have been a golden mantel--sp?). We would lock the cats up and let the squirrel out to run around. I got blamed for leaving the toilet seat up--the problem is--I was a girl and wouldn't have had both seats up. Poor little guy!

So yes, I do have chipmunk stories! Bet this is one thing that people would never have guessed about me!

 

[DVCLiz]

Could I play if it's a mouse instead? I don't have any current chipmunk stories to tell!

One of my daughter's friends reached down to get a Coke from a 12 pack on the kitchen floor. When she moved it, we found the bloody gnawed head of a mouse behind it. Never found the body, though....

I'll be on the lookout for a dead chipmunk and will report back if one is spotted.

 

[KristaTX]

We don't have chipmunks here. I'd be fascinated if I saw one . Kind of like how people who don't have armadillos where they live get excited about seeing armadillos when they go to WDW.

 

[alliecats]

Hey, at least I TRIED to be humane!! And I have a lhasa apso -- the chipmunks are more likely to eat her than vice versa!

LOL. Your post was hilarious. When I finished reading it, I had that "Funkytown" song in my head. Only it was 'Munkytown.

 

[tmt martins]

Could I play if it's a mouse instead? I don't have any current chipmunk stories to tell!

One of my daughter's friends reached down to get a Coke from a 12 pack on the kitchen floor. When she moved it, we found the bloody gnawed head of a mouse behind it. Never found the body, though....

I'll be on the lookout for a dead chipmunk and will report back if one is spotted.

We had a cat that liked to bring us presents(mice) to us in bed while we slept .Nothing like a live mouse dropped on your face at 4:00am and a cat looking like What a great job I just did.

Oh yea she never killed them just brought them to us must have been into relocation as well.

 

[jonestavern]

When we were first married we owned the world's most unaffectionate Black Labrador, the granite Razzle.

My neighbor, said to me one spring morning, "Oh, I just loved watching the chipmunks & squirrels run along our fence. It seems so long since the kids & I have seen any."

I bemoaned their absence along with her & never said word one about how I'd found naught but little fur skins littering my yard. Naughty Razzle dog!

When we moved to the sticks, it wasn't a month before I observed the obvious plummeting of the squirrel/chipmunk population.

Don't say anything to anyone in NH, okay?

Jean

 

[alliecats]

Ok, people. This is getting out of hand! Anyone got a happy 'munk story? Preferably one that starts, "Once upon a time, a chipmunk family..." and ends with "happily ever after."

No more hauntings by the ghosts of chipmunks past, please!

Just kidding. If you have a chipmunk death (or two) that you need to deal with, we are here for you.

 

[TurboKitty]

Are squirrel stories allowed as well?

We have three bird feeders on our deck, to attract cardinals, gold finches and hummingbirds. The one for the cardinals also attracts other creatures.


I am getting aggrevated with the squirrels. They are some BRAZEN rodentia! I have actually seen them leap up from the railing onto the birdfeeder itself.

I have had enough! No more of these piggish freeloaders. I am now on a mission to discourage these little boogers.

Now, everytime I see them, gorging their furry selves, I pick up the weapon.

Slowly, ease open the sliding glass door and take aim.....

SQUIRT! SQUIRT! SQUIRT! SQUIRT!

Apparently they don't like being squirted with water much. One of them runs like a target in a carnival. The other J U M P S ! all over the deck. He's a challenge to hit, especially while blocking the cats with my foot to keep them inside.

If you see a wet squirrel in my neighborhood, please point and laugh at it. Maybe humilation will help a bit too.

 

[sweet angel]

My father used to have birdfeeders and made his life's work to stop the squirrels. He tied water balloons to the feeders, greased the poles, ran out clapping his hands, etc. People must have thought he was the crazy man in the neighborhood....

 

[Ready to go in Ok]

Ok, what about bunnies? I was awakened this am to a funny sound outside of my window. DH had just let the dogs out, and I thought, great, Charlie got another bird. Not sure how he does it, being the obese dachsund that he is....he is 2 inches from the ground and nearly as round as he is tall......birds have the whole sky?!? Anyway, I got up, go outside barefooted, in the chilly morning air, to try to rescue the "bird" and have to fight the little killer to remove the bunny carcus from the backyard. (Let me tell you, dachsunds may be small, but they think they are the size of an elephant.) What a way to start the day!

 

[CheshireVal]

Chipmunks are so cute, though!

My cats don't go outside now, but when I was growing up all my cats got to go out. The things I remember most showing up on our doorstep were little mole carcasses. Yuck! Sometimes birds, but mostly moles.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Ok, what about bunnies? I was awakened this am to a funny sound outside of my window.

Rabbits can sure scream loud!

One time after 10PM one night we were inside watch the news when we heard a scream and ran outside where our dogs were. I yelled at my DH to get a flashlight and managed to run through the yard, avoiding land mines (we're not so great with the scooping ) and found a bunny that had lodged itself in the wire of our split rail fence. After my DH brought the dog inside I went to the other side of the fence and the bunny backed away from me and escaped from the other side of the yard. There aren't any big gaps in the fencing, but enough for rabbits to get in (even though the fencing company said they couldn't).

She has killed some rabbits, and I feel bad, but considering those cute little bunnies mowed down my blueberry bushes last year I don't feel nearly as bad as I otherwise would.

Yes, this is the same dog that brought the chipmunk into the house.

Our other dog would chase animals, but never catch them.

BTW, Sheena is find with our indoor cats, thank goodness.

 

[DVCLiz]

OK, just for you a happy chipmunk story.

NO chipmunks have ever been killed at the DVCLiz residence. Both cats are indoor now, and apparently they, too, like the concept of catch and release in the mouse department. So we have zillions of little chippies running around all the time. I think they are adorable, so I am glad to support them. Even if they are too stupid to come up on the front porch and eat the leftover guinea pig food and hay I put out for them last year. I finally had to sweep it up and throw it away - dummies.

I think mice, rats, and squirrels are gross but chippies can come and stay anytime!!!!

I do have a squirrel in my yard with a worm coming out of the side of his body. A friend of mine saw this in her yard a few years ago and called the wildlife people. They said it was a parasite and this was part of its life cycle. So today, when you have some minor complaint about your complexion or body, just be thank***l something larval isn't trying to burrow its way out of you!!!!