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    Chipmunks! How to get rid of them?

    Long story short: We have a HUUUGE family of chipmunks that now live all around our house. I guess it keeps them safe from predators. They aren't cute anymore, causing a lot of damage to the lawn, shrubs, etc.

    Ca anyone suggest the "best" way of eliminating them? I don't care about keeping them alive, though a quick death would be preferable to something nasty. (Anything is better than being eaten alive by an owl, I think.)


    I'm actually considering a slingshot, followed by a baseball bat.

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    What doesn't work... My F-I-L used live traps on 'his' squirrels. Once caught, he hauled them miles to remote area for pardon & parole to their new wilderness home. And yes, the squirrel(s) got back to the house before he did.

    Use a projectile weapon. Caliber, propellant, and muzzle velocity determined by proximity of neighbors who think they're cute. Air gun worked for my father.

    I tried poison on skunks. Epic fail. Remington worked fine.
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    Peppermint oil has worked in my shop for the past two years. A few drops on a cotton ball in their hole. they can't stand it. It's also good for mice and moles. It really works. Just make sure the peppermint oil has a high concentration of menthol in it (mfg. in Japan is best). Keep putting it out and they will leave.
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    Get a dog or a cat?

    We used to have issues with squirrels chewing on stuff and destroying everything.

    Now that we have a dog, he chews on stuff and destroys everything!

    (but at least he is trainable and we are working on it....)
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    I pop 'em with BB guns and slingshots but I suppose you could use mouse traps. Around here we call them "boomers" and dogs just hate them. I don't know why, maybe because of the noise they make, but don't let any dogs really get to looking for them or they'll tear your stuff up. Are you planning on eating them, I've never had chipmunk but I guess it ain't far from a squirrel.
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    My dad used to swear by turpentine, in the old days we'd put garbage cans out for pickup the night before, and the neighborhood cats, racoons and whatever would have them tipped over before the garbage trucks showed up in the morning. He started pouring a little turpentine in the can, and that fixed the problem. Cheap to try!
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    Google pvc bait station. You can make it small for mice only, or a little bigger for mice and chipmunks.
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    Dcon or Tomcat mouse poison worked for me.
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    A break barrel air rifle works great and the cost is pretty reasonable. They are relatively quiet and the cost of the pellets is minimal.

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    Regular old Victor mousetrap works fine for me. lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Padilla View Post
    Get a dog or a cat?

    We used to have issues with squirrels chewing on stuff and destroying everything.

    Now that we have a dog, he chews on stuff and destroys everything!

    (but at least he is trainable and we are working on it....)
    That made me laugh out loud
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    I fight this problem with the striped ground squirrels every year. I use "Better Rodentraps" by Intruder. They are plastic but work fine and recommended by the local feed store.

    I bait them with peanut butter and bird seed pushed into it. I also wire them to a pole or stake as raccoons like a free meal and can take off with the traps.

    I have a number of the traps and the first year got around 75. I get them out in the spring when I see the first o n e. It is a never ending battle but I live in the sticks. There is a mass graveyard of them over the back fence.


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    Get a TomCat black plastic snap trap (HD has them) and bait it with sunflower seeds, don't bother with peanut butter, you might attract squirrels. And get a box of 1 quart freezer zip lock's to use as body bags. Hold the trap over the bag, squeeze, bait again and on to the next one. Chipmunks are really easy to trap, they are very stupid.
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    I had a couple dozen of them running rampant around my house just a week ago. They'd literally run into you, and were way too nonchalant. They started getting into my garage and I had enough.

    I simply used a have-a-hart trap and caught 6 in about 3 hours of trapping. I used sunflower seeds. I did this all with my 3 year old as I am not ready to have her see the cute little chipmunks go for a swim, so the live trap was the ticket. I "tagged" each one with some orange spray paint so we'd know if they came back, and walked each one about half mile away and let them go on the other side of a fairly busy road.

    It's been very quiet since then.

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