Chipmunks! How to get rid of them?

[Myk Rian]

Water bucket. Guaranteed.

Fill a 5 gal bucket up to 5"-6" from the top. Sprinkle sunflower seeds to completely cover the water. You can use a board as a ramp to the edge. Check it later.
Did I say "Guaranteed"?
I use a bent coat hanger to check for them in the bottom, but they do float to the top. Use tongs or one of those extended "Hands" clamp tool to take them out.
Add more seeds. Change the water every few days.

Guaranteed to work. I toss them out in the woods. Don't know what eats 'em. Raccoons maybe.

[Conrad Fiore]

Rent a weasel from Jim Koepke

[Ted Calver]

rent a weasel from jim koepke

That's just too funny!!!

[Ole Anderson]

In my mind snap traps are more humane than drowning. Maybe not?

[Myk Rian]

In my mind snap traps are more humane than drowning. Maybe not?

Heck with humane. They're a hole digging pest.
Would you rather it drag a trap around until it bled out?

[Michael Weber]

According to a recent post by Jim Koepke, you need to get yourself a weasel or two.

[Dave Anderson NH]

Our chipmunk problem ebbs and flows. Across the street in the woods lives a Great Horned Owl. He or she occasionally will swoop down across the front yard and catch a chipmunk on the fly. It is absolutely spectacular to watch that huge wingspan glide down silently, grasp the chip in its talons, and fly off without ever touching the ground. The owl never gets them all so the population recovers.

[Ole Anderson]

Heck with humane. They're a hole digging pest.
Would you rather it drag a trap around until it bled out?

Trapped probably 25, only had one that wasn't a clean kill.

[Harry Hagan]

Ditto on the rat traps if you don't have other critters you're fond of roaming around.

[Allan Speers]

Well, I've tried both of the "mousetrap" types suggested on this thread.

I've had maybe 30 - 40 trips, and NOT ONE SINGLE DEAD RODENT.
So then I put JUST A FEW seeds right in the center, they still get out. Those suckers are FAST.

Also, the grey squirrels are joining in, messing things up. (no peanut butter, just seeds.) I actually watched a squirrel trip one. The squirrel's head was so big, the trap did no damage.

@#$@%#$

I think all the 'munks from the neighboring yards are now coming over for the banquet I've laid out.

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Got me a hunting slingshot yesterday, and some 54 cal lead balls. Still not very accurate, but today I bagged my first sqirrel. I aimed center-mass, so naturally it was a head shot, right in the eye. Hey, dead is dead!
I felt kinda' bad skinning the thing, but I'm not killing something without eating it. Supposed to be really tasty !

Now I gotta' go hunt me a BAR! I don't think they move as fast as chipmunks. (I might need a bigger slingshot, though.)



Fricking chipmunks ......... Today part of my side walkway collapsed. Underneath the pavers, a huge area had opened up. Sure enough, i had chipmunk tunnels all around its perimeter. I think they were holding town meetings down there.


It's time to try that "drowning bucket of doom." I really didn't want to drown them, but this is war.

[Allan Speers]

Our chipmunk problem ebbs and flows. Across the street in the woods lives a Great Horned Owl. He or she occasionally will swoop down across the front yard and catch a chipmunk on the fly. It is absolutely spectacular to watch that huge wingspan glide down silently, grasp the chip in its talons, and fly off without ever touching the ground. The owl never gets them all so the population recovers.

Nice !

A friend of mine has a trout pond, out in NW New jersey. Every once in a while a crane will swoop out of the air and snag a trout, then carry it off. (Yes, a "swooping" crane. )

Those things are HUGE. Talk about spectacular sight!

[Allan Speers]

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.

Mine must have gone to college.

Is there some trick to this?

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I went out today, to check my 12 snap-traps (six intruder, and six of the black ones recommended earlier.)

2 Intruders are simply gone. Two have been ripped apart. (raccoons?) Two were tripped with no catches.

2 black ones tripped with no catches, and the other four are still set, but empty !

[Mel Fulks]

Allan those traps are a little fussy. You can secure the wire a little too solidly, you want it to be so easily sprung that you have to be pretty careful to not get hurt. I need them so rarely that my first setting is invariably to slow.

[Mayo Pardo]

I had chipmunks burrowing and nesting underneath our patio and then below the siding on the house. I could hear them chewing on the framing on top of the foundation, so no more... I got a hav-a-hart trap and used dried fruit and nuts (trail mix) which worked good, but also found small pieces of apple worked very well. I caught a total of 7 which I relocated to a park near a river. Hopefully that's all there were in the family!

[Larry Frank]

I have the chipmunk and use the Intruder trap. All of mine are wire tied to something. As mentioned earlier, I use peanut butter with bird seed or Sun flower seeds pressed in which makes it difficult to clean them out without snapping them. However, at times, mice will clean them out.

I keep the population down but not out and constantly have to set them. It is death, taxes and chipmunk.