Support your local chipmunk
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Already hand feed one of my little guys.My local chipmunk has returned after winter hibernation to visit me this past week for sunflower and peanuts.
One of them will go into my pockets looking for peanuts when I'm not quick enough with an offering.
They actually no their name, and what,..."come get peanut" means.
Had a female a few years back, after the previous year, transplanted her family of six to the boulders around my pool one year,..the next year she was sitting on one of them 1st time in the spring.
I yelled out,...peanut,...she looked up towards me, hesitated,...then came running to me, all the while singing, with I like to think,...happiness.
I love animals, they love me,...neighbours with pets, get pissed when their pets prefer my company,...they do know who to trust,...and who will be good to them.
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once you have 30 or more
you may not be so happy to see them
watched 2 a few years back run up between me & the neighbor chatting & dig up 2 bulbs from the garden...
you may not be so happy to see them
watched 2 a few years back run up between me & the neighbor chatting & dig up 2 bulbs from the garden...
I've been here 12 years, and have never seen more than 3 at any one time.
My experience has been that they claim and then protect their territory.
Once the young ones are old enough, mother chases them away.
Not trying to be a jerk here,...but you sure they are chipmunks ?
We have more problems with rabbits feeding on the SO's garden stuff.
The only time I have ever heard them "chatting", was when they were having a war, and rolling up in a little fury ball of fisticuffs.
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I was camping last fall, and I caught a chipmunk helping itself to a bun, on the picnic table. I later took a bun, and coaxed it up on to my lap for an awesome picture and experience.
I keep a baggie of peanuts on my balcony for the squirrels behind my building. Fun tossing a few down and watching them hunt around.
I keep a baggie of peanuts on my balcony for the squirrels behind my building. Fun tossing a few down and watching them hunt around.
I've always spoil the chipmunks that come around. They each have a territory and are usually related to the one in the next territory.
Used to have one that figured out my schedule. It would sit on the front tire of my car at around 11:55 knowing I would be going to lunch at noon. Got a treat every time I left for lunch.
Used to have one that figured out my schedule. It would sit on the front tire of my car at around 11:55 knowing I would be going to lunch at noon. Got a treat every time I left for lunch.
https://www.crittercontrol.com/services/chipmunks/chipmunk-diseases.html
From the website;
From the website;
There's nothing adorable about the plague, salmonella or hantavirus.
https://www.cdc.gov/rodents/diseases/direct.html
Diseases carried by rodents (yes, chipmunks are rodents).
From the CDC website;
Diseases carried by rodents (yes, chipmunks are rodents).
From the CDC website;
- Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
- Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome
- Lassa Fever
- Leptospirosis
- Lymphocytic Chorio-meningitis (LCM)
- Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever
- Plague
- Rat-Bite Fever
- Salmonellosis
- South American Arenaviruses (Argentine hemorrhagic fever, Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, Sabiá-associated hemorrhagic fever, Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever)
- Tularemia
That's fucked up. I guess it fits with you though.
Make a list of all the diseases carried by humans now please so we can put the chipmunk ones in context.
Hey,...if it isn't listed as something allowed to be enjoyed in his "book",...it must be evil,...KILL IT.
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It's weird how people think chipmunks and squirrels are so cute, yet hate rats and mice. I like them all, and am honoured when any critter lets me into their personal space without freaking out.
What's fucked up? Was I the one who made the video? It's obviously a big enough problem that 2 million + viewed it.
How does that fit me? Because I don't want my family and pets to get infected with disease? Or my garden destroyed? You want to compare human diseases to rodent diseases? You know rodents caused the plague, right? Do you allow mice to live in your house? You know that chipmunks are way more destructive than mice if they get in your house, right?
Your city "morals" don't apply to me, so don't try your "holier than thou" crap, mmmkay?
Oh and BTW, that's a "live" trap.
What book? The CDC website listing the diseases rodents carry? There you go, couldn't resist, could you? You had to try to bring religion in a totally unrelated subject.
Enjoy hand feeding your rodents. When you catch the plague or hantavirus, you can go blame that book you hate so much.
And yeah, that's a LIVE trap in the video, so go pretend to be outraged at something else.
All this anger over chipmunks??
I can give you some more worthwhile causes to get upset about if you want.
I can give you some more worthwhile causes to get upset about if you want.
Not angry at all, just pointing out how some around here need to make everything "us vs. them".All this anger over chipmunks??
I can give you some more worthwhile causes to get upset about if you want.
Now that you bring up religion,...that would be a answer for you strange attitude towards mother nature.
And in addition to the "plague",...you forgot to mention that "the attack the locusts".
OH,...and vers,...did you know that pigs make excellent pets,...???
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Nice, editing my post because you can't handle it when other people are right. What exactly were you referring to, when you mentioned book, in your previous post? That's what I thought.
Are you disagreeing with the CDC website? I'm pretty sure they mean the Bubonic plague. You know, the one that killed almost half the world in the Middle Ages? Are you arguing that it never happened? Or that it was caused by rodents? Please elaborate.
And chickens are said to be as intelligent as cats. What's your point?
Haven't seen any yet this spring, they would have to be nuts to come out yet. But I love chipmunks.My local chipmunk has returned after winter hibernation to visit me this past week for sunflower and peanuts.
As to diseases such as Bubonic plague, Hantavirus and Salmonella: Bubonic plague is basically unheard of here in Eastern North America you are far more likely to have a risk of it if you are handling Ground Squirrel's, Prairie Dogs or Marmots in Arizona or Alberta or Montana than from any Chipmunk around here. Your greatest risk of Hantavirus in North America is in the Southwestern U.S. and from rodents which are living and defecating indoors - so unless you have Chipmunks inside your house. . .
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