%$%$%$%$in things are driving us crazy

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I gotta get me one of these.....hmmmm I got a propane torch.......:devil2:

Me too Salty. Everyone I talk to has seen a spike in their numbers this year. Wonder if its part of a super breeding class or something. I am almost overrun by them.

just got in from setting up 2 BOD (bucket of death)

2 gallons water....a ramp laced with peanut butter and corn/sunflower seeds...

and a cleverly placed aluminum plate "diving board" balanced on the edge of the bucket...just far enough not to reach....

WHAMMO Uncle Salty's coming for you %$%$%$%$ers LOL

Damn things are running around my garage. Only a matter of time before one is in the house then i'm screwed. BOD got me two mice already no chipmunks. Kept finding the ramp on the ground and all the seeds eaten.

Photo needed of BOD. I had to rebuild an brick walk because of one of these little Bas****s.

Help Please

5 gallon homer bucket....fill to the top of P in paint with water...

30" piece of wood ramped to top from ground...tape to bucket so the %$%$%$%$ers can't kick it off....

fill the water with seeds-they will float....you don't want to see water....it takes about 2-3 quarts of seeds at each "refill"

Put a 4"x8" piece of metal I used aluminum balanced on the bucket top....peanut butter and seeds on the plate...far nuff away that they have to jump over to it. powee gone. LOL

no camera at home so no pics sorry. friggin pets bastids probably targeting my house for bombs now

i'm comin for you raven
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little %$%$%$%$ers knocked me down last nite on one BOD the other not touched :smash:

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i've got em all over too, in the garage. I need to clean em out

i've got em all over too, in the garage. I need to clean em out


I thought your rodent problem was The Skunk. :grins:

I've got a bunch of chipmunks living under my deck and my shed. I need to get rid of them soon. I've filled their holes with rocks but they just dig a new hole around it in a few days. Last year I used a powder that seemed to keep them away. I can't remember the name, but it was in a blue cannister and was made out of pepper to keep critters away.

ouch, that hurts.......

ouch, that hurts.......

Let me know when you want to go out after work some night. You may not catch anything, but fishing with me always makes other people seem like better fishermen because I suck so bad.

If they seem like they're increasing in numbers, it's because they are!
Just like there are more squirrels this year.
If we have a wet and warm spring, the squirrels, chipmunks and most other rodents will breed more than once, and start ealier than usual. The reason is an ample supply of food, mainly seeds and berries. The forces of nature will take their toll as the number of predators increase as well, and finally when winter comes again, they will not all survive.

We go through cycles like this every few years.

i have no trouble catching them at ALL

i use the smallest have -a -hart trap

i use half a slice of bread that's been spread with
peanut butter ...then ....I take black sunflower seeds
and mush them into the peanut butter for bait.

the door with the straight rod is the one i keep closed.

but first, i open it halfway and slide the 1/2 piece of bread
into the exact center just behind the door.

i then close it and lock it.

i set the trap against something so that the trip lever
is less accessible sitting on just half of the flat or 2/3rds
of the trip tray lever. they have to crawl over it to get to it.

i place a couple of small stones outside the lock catch
on the propped open door
and one larger one or maybe a brick on top of the
trap to keep-er steady.

it sometimes only takes ten minutes to catch them this way.

i even caught a squirrel in that lil ole trap the other day. :uhuh:

i have no trouble catching them at ALL

i use the smallest have -a -hart trap

i use half a slice of bread that's been spread with
peanut butter ...then ....I take black sunflower seeds
and mush them into the peanut butter for bait.

the door with the straight rod is the one i keep closed.

but first, i open it halfway and slide the 1/2 piece of bread
into the exact center just behind the door.

i then close it and lock it.

i set the trap against something so that the trip lever
is less accessible sitting on just half of the flat or 2/3rds
of the trip tray lever. they have to crawl over it to get to it.

i place a couple of small stones outside the lock catch
on the propped open door
and one larger one or maybe a brick on top of the
trap to keep-er steady.

it sometimes only takes ten minutes to catch them this way.

i even caught a squirrel in that lil ole trap the other day. :uhuh:

After trapped place the whole trap in a plastic trash bag and attach opening to the exhaust pipe of a car/truck, start her up, and fill the bag with that nice odorless gas! Come back in an hr or so and have your moment of victory (or silence).

there's 3 in my driveway right now.

they're laughing at me.

hehehe

YouTube - Dramatic Laughing Chipmunk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumwqm4Fgk8)

i have no trouble catching them at ALL

i use the smallest have -a -hart trap

i use half a slice of bread that's been spread with
peanut butter ...then ....I take black sunflower seeds
and mush them into the peanut butter for bait.

the door with the straight rod is the one i keep closed.

but first, i open it halfway and slide the 1/2 piece of bread
into the exact center just behind the door.

i then close it and lock it.

i set the trap against something so that the trip lever
is less accessible sitting on just half of the flat or 2/3rds
of the trip tray lever. they have to crawl over it to get to it.

i place a couple of small stones outside the lock catch
on the propped open door
and one larger one or maybe a brick on top of the
trap to keep-er steady.

it sometimes only takes ten minutes to catch them this way.

i even caught a squirrel in that lil ole trap the other day. :uhuh:


If you use a trap small enough that they can't raise the tail, THEY CAN'T SPRAY YOU!

Relocated several this way. Shoulda seen the folks at my school bolt when I carried the trap in, complete with black and white kitty.:rotf2:

bastids got a surround sound system setup out there now and they're playing this over and over

YouTube - alvin and the chipmunks-war by Edwin Starr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKx_LAeLpYk)

I just smelled something funny and went outside they're all in a circle in the driveway WTF :smash:

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I need to come ovah!!

I need to come ovah!!

It is BYOG! Unless you kill the buggers then you can have theirs....:rotf2:

BUCKET OF DEATH 1

CHIPMUNKS 0

GOTCHU MOTHER%$%$%$%$ER :happy:

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Turns out there is tremendous history and some famous battles.

Great Squirrel-Chipmunk War - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia (http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Great_Squirrel-Chipmunk_War)

Dramatic chipmunk - Star wars laser sword Video (http://vodpod.com/watch/600962-dramatic-chipmunk-star-wars-laser-sword)

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Just give them cedar and walk away!!

The only unknown image of a Weapon of Mass Distraction.

WMDs are for Salty to forget about the chippy's.

The only unknown image of a Weapon of Mass Distraction.

WMDs are for Salty to forget about the chippy's.

I'll take 2 and a tight fit please!!

Don't mess with the chipmunks...ask Donald Duck...

frickin things are out there making chipmunk love right now :smash:

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Import some snakes, they'll take care of them real quick!

Put dog poo in their holes. They will think something much bigger moved in and abandoned the hole.

Import some snakes, they'll take care of them real quick!

when i was out west we had lotsa gophers
so i'd be excavating their main tunnel

"the gopher super highway below ground"
and setting a bar trap to squish their gut...
and killem....

I also was in the habit of feeding snakes into their holes
to "drive them out"

well ,,one day i get home from some errands
and i go check the trap to see if the bar was up
and sure enough it was....

cool i say....i got one of those MF-ers finally

and i go to grab the trap for a "look see"
picking it up with my right hand
bending down at the knees...

i get it like a foot out of its spot
and it shot back out of my hand like a rubber band
and scared the living beejeezus out of Me...

turns out i caught the gopher snake
and he was wicked pissed off
with the gopher in his belly
HE was STUCK ....

yea that works as good as filling in their holes. They just move 6" and dig another :smash:

I got snakes too. Killed a over 3'er last year right under my boat. All this stuff is related...the snakes are here for the little stuff like mice and s hitmunks.

Put dog poo in their holes. They will think something much bigger moved in and abandoned the hole.

Whats the SCORE?

I'm up 3 mice and a chipmunk

I could have sworn I felt bulldozers digging last night. I think they're getting ready to hit my shop now too. I was walking past the front door this morning and I caught one about to run in. I gave him the fake earthquake treatment (I stomped my foot) and he ran like a little sissy

You need an air riffle with a scope. Give Thomas the nod with a $5 bounty per chipmunk hide...

cant you get in trouble for that though?

nope

cant you get in trouble for that though?

yes ........if seen hanging out the window
and goin "pop"

ya gotta step back four feet INSIDE so the POP gets muffled
by the walls of the house....

make sure he can hit a quarter sized target at 25 feet

Whats the SCORE?

no chips are heard

THE SCORE

Salty now has TWO less chippies :kewl:

The bucket of death works. I didn't even re-do it after the rains the other day and I had another floater this afternoon.

won't take long for the replacements to find your honey hole

YouTube - Squirrel Impossible (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AlfQEZ9RkU)

You need an air riffle with a scope. Give Thomas the nod with a $5 bounty per chipmunk hide...

yup

cant you get in trouble for that though?

nope

nope

once again, nebe is correct

yes ........if seen hanging out the window
and goin "pop"

ya gotta step back four feet INSIDE so the POP gets muffled
by the walls of the house....

make sure he can hit a quarter sized target at 25 feet


verse and chapter PLEASE...huh??

had someone, who is now long gone, :D that was shooting chipmunks and squirrels outside (that was his story, and he was sticking to it)
on his deck and wandering the property line. a "gentlemen" who because of his record could not get an FID, doing this mind you... pellets whistling over my head thru the leaves.. a visit to the local Defective's office, and was told that nothing illegal was taking place.. he is shooting squirrels on his property, with an air rifle that can be bought at any walmart, not an issue.. if you have a verse and chapter on that, I would love to see it, with the source, so I can inform said Lt. Defective...

anyways, pellet gun, (22's even better IF you can) rat traps, and D-con...

or invite the coyotes back... they knew how to keep the red devils in check.

hav a hart traps??? then you got to let them go... where are you going to repopulate them, and WHO wants them?

Homer's Bucket of death $2.99

Seed $5

Check it once a day for floaters...priceless :hee:

peta :bshake:

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hav a hart traps??? then you got to let them go... where are you going to repopulate them, and WHO wants them?[/QUOTE]



I just take them across the resivoir and drop them in the woods.

They don't come back unless they can swim or find the road. :D

they'll find the road Dave (booger is proving they can't swim for chit).... kill 'em all... that way you'll save gas luggin the little bastages back and forth....

Homer's Bucket of death $2.99

Seed $5

Check it once a day for floaters...priceless :hee:

peta :bshake:

Salty what do you have against peta? I'm a member...

P- people
E- eat
T- tasty
A- amimals

I just take them across the resevoir and drop them in the woods.

They don't come back unless they can swim or find the road. :D

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got to expensive and time consuming to do that...

i'd take one for a one way trip.... and by the time i got back

another one was ready.... so i said frig it.

For Sale: Chipmunk Tails

$5 each

They usually fall prey to peanut butter and bird seed mixed together and place on a set rat trap. Got about ten red squirrels a couple of years ago using that method plus a couple of munks.

i use the hav-a-heart...and it takes less than twenty minutes if they're active...

i just relocated one to the city forest since i had an errand there...
he was chewing the crap out of my jacuzzi insulation on the inside
so he had to go....

he'd be lookin at me from the bird feeder with STUFFED cheeks goin "WHAT?" :huh:

not any more

NOW they're digging UNDER the pool. Large piles of sand in two places....2 burrows clearly evident under the liner. Gdamn %$%$%$%$ers gonna cost me a new pool liner now.

REWARD. $20 a head out of my yard some n get im :smash:

Dude.. I told ya. air riffle with a scope. Pzzzzzzzzzzip

I'M GOING ALL OUT THERMONUCLEAR SHORTLY

Trying to figure out how to remotely detonate the burrows. I'm going to fill them with propane

I'M GOING ALL OUT THERMONUCLEAR SHORTLY

Trying to figure out how to remotely detonate the burrows. I'm going to fill them with propane

Try something a little less volatile for starters (please): put a water hose in the tunnels and drown/force them to new cover! Tactic worked when I was a youngster trying to get rid of a rat colony. You can even stand at the "other" entrances/exits with a shovel and smash the basterds as they come out for some fun.

PR BUZZ i've used so much freakin water it's ridiculous. They run out of the holes after about 30 seconds and then they're back the next day. This damage is fresh overnight the thing literally moved enough material to make a burrow 5' under the pool. The liner has already sagged into the burrow. Next is 18,000 gallons of water going byebye :wave:

I am starting to think that just running a torch line into the burrow for a few minutes even without detonating would be enough to gas the things dead? I couldn't imagine even a chipmunk could stay alive having to breath propane for a few minutes. :huh::hang::wid::behead::rumble::rumble::banano:

I've got some leftover 3/4 stone I'm going to put a berm around the outside of the pool more than the stone that's there already after dinner.

got 2 today

even if you get those two with any method you use...

the replacements will be moving in as fast as you eliminate
them so you better resign yourself to that fact

and stop.....and listen to the master chipmunk catcher of the land

hahahahahaha

Get a cat... or three. Visited my girlfriend's parents last weekend, the cat catches and kills one/day sometimes 2-3 on a good day. The rabbits don't bother her garden either.

ya know what else they cannot resist....?

is a ten foot length of 3 inch pipe ....

you cap one end and put in a 1/2 inch hole for light....

you throw sun black sunflower seed down the closed end
by tipping it upside down so they can smell it....

then have just a few sunflower seeds 6 inches from the opening
so they get used to getting a free meal....in there

you make a quick disturbance and they'll scoot in there
to make a hasty retreat... for safety... then ya pull the string
on the can lid thats screwed to the open edge with one screw
and they are trapped... bingo

i hate cats johnny

friggin smelly poo everywhere lick their $!@#$!@ and then stick their face in yours

gdamn pee everywhere

I had one once when I shared a house with a few people the stupid thing sprayed all over my jacket. disgusting animal

dont be so stubborn Scott

take a ride

Havahart Two Door Small Animal Cage Trap - 1025 at The Home Depot (http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xh3/R-100064103/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053)

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IS THAT FOR THE CATS RAVEN?

just snapped this a minute ago

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i have a mouser cat but i think he's too kicked back to catch a chipmunk

now if he was a she that would be different

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ya know what else they cannot resist....?

is a ten foot length of 3 inch pipe ....

you cap one end and put in a 1/2 inch hole for light....

you throw sun black sunflower seed down the closed end
by tipping it upside down so they can smell it....

then have just a few sunflower seeds 6 inches from the opening
so they get used to getting a free meal....in there

you make a quick disturbance and they'll scoot in there
to make a hasty retreat... for safety... then ya pull the string
on the can lid thats screwed to the open edge with one screw
and they are trapped... bingo

We did this at Paul Smith's in 1976 as part of a grad study. It works!!

i hate cats johnny

friggin smelly poo everywhere lick their $!@#$!@ and then stick their face in yours

gdamn pee everywhere

I had one once when I shared a house with a few people the stupid thing sprayed all over my jacket. disgusting animal

Cats aren't my favorite either. But boy do they do a good job at keeping the pests away.

IS THAT FOR THE CATS RAVEN?

STAR the Cattle dog has the job of chasing away all squirrels,cats,
foxes, coyotes, bears, and bobcats....

your laughin Now ...i can hear ya from here...
yes we have bears here on occasion around the wachuset res

in fact, the neighbors across the street have 3 cows and the bear
came around to try and eat one of them last year....

so the cows got mad, treed the bear and would not let him down
and guarded the tree until the wardens took care of the situation.

hav a hart traps??? then you got to let them go... where are you going to repopulate them, and WHO wants them?

usually , i drop the whole trap into a barrel full of water........

occasionally if i am going on an errand i make them a home depot chipmunk , or a stop and shop chipmunk- lol

as far as the legality of shooting them....it's some nosy neighbor that gets all pissed off about it....thats the problem and then she is for ever your enemy and watches everything you do and will report you at the drop of a hat.

you could probably get good money for them in provincetown :grins:

That looks like the one that was laughing at me yesterday in my yard. Hey wait it's the same one :rotf2:

just snapped this a minute ago

i know exactly where to release my MUNKS now :rotf2:

i was even more enthusiastic about watchin the birds...chasin off squirrels that robbed the feeders

and my Dad says to me.... after noticing all the maple trees looked like friggan HELL ..... in the late spring and summer...

i wonder whats wrong with them Craig?

i said: I know exactly why ! they have so few leaves DAD.
the squirrels are chewing the buds off the trees because they are SWEET as maple sugar.

he then bought me the hav a hart trap and i'd set it and sit there all day
watching it.... for hours on end.... perfecting my squirrel catchin ability to an ART form...

the reason you need the smallest one for the chippy's is because they don't weigh as much and sometimes they won't trip the bait lever on the big one.

the squirrels i relocated to the Charles river area after spray painting the tip of their tail silver ....so if they came back i'd know it.

soon, i was shooting silver tipped squirrels :) with the trusty ole Sheridan pellet gun with the weaver scope before school

DOUBLE SCORE TODAY

mouse in one and another little digger in the other bucket. :kewl:

All that stone last night didn't do #^&#^&#^&#^&. They dug right through it back under the pool again. I think they must be able to smell something where the burrow is. No way he could have picked exactly the same place to redig. I'm thinking a little bleach sprinkled around there ought to fix his ass tonite. What a friggin mess this thing is making.

if they have babies in a burrow nothing but nothing will keep them out

flushing with water will not work

because they dig a by pass trench in case of torrential downpours

Not sure about chipmunks , but i got the ground hog to move on. I had tried filling hole , with dirt/rocks, sticks etc. The bastard would dig it out in a day. So last fish i caught , i jammed all the guts/rack down in the bastards hole, and covered it with dirt. It's been about 3 weeks and no hog.

good job..... Cheferson

smell ! is what they relate too

almost daily.... not for a lack of catching fish ok

this friggan skunk had a den right behind my house
when i lived in Northborough...

every damn night he/she would spray...

and instantly my house got fumigated with skunk smell

then i read that skunks have a den within 100 feet of
where they spray often.... aha i said... :think:

so i began searching like a forensics expert
and could not believe how close the den was
to my back porch...just 60 feet away

so i grab the hose one morning...turned it on
shoved it in the hole....
and sat down outside to have my coffee like normal

ten minutes or so goes by....

suddenly i noticed this shimmering light as the morning sun
shown through white baby skunk fur that was wet with water...

and the whole family came parading out of there
never to return..... to my ultimate satisfaction :happy:

I sprinkled about a pint of clorox all around the side of the pool. The whole area smells like clorox now so hopefully he won't be able to find the burrow again. If you could see the damage holy crap. 3-6' long burrows right across the bottom of the pool liner. This is not good. Course if he's inside I just wasted my time. If the hole opens tomorrow he's getting Salty's customized gas chamber.

NOTHING like the smell of skunk. I actually enjoy the smell I think it's pisser neat that mother nature could make something so vile that it pollutes air for a 1/2 mile in every direction :hee: My wife thinks I'm wacked. She's right.

If you need a skunk attractant, just hang a bunch of your plugs along the lip of your pool :hihi:

:fart2:

If you need a skunk attractant, just hang a bunch of your plugs along the lip of your pool :hihi:

Fluffy ...it's new name

paid a visit last night....

he/she's out there munchin on dropped sunflower seed :doh:

.....................just what i friggan need :wall: OMFG

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Scott,
there's only ONE good kind of skunk smell

and that's from Cannabis Indica ....:smokin:

i supposed you like hot tar too then :doh:

Rav

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pprvp0Uujdg

we gotta Blast

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well the clorox worked...no digging around that area but there's a fresh small hole about 10' away. Scratching my head because he ate through the weed cloth under the stone but the hole isn't big enough for anything to get in or out yet...

time for the propane :devil2:

a chipmunk twirtles and runs behind some lumber
by my back door

i grab the trap
prepare the bait
and set it....

time now, exactly 2:15 pm

time: 2:29 pm i hear the trap noise
he's caught
traps dropped in barrel at 2:30 pm

no problem

I figured out how to remotely detonate last night it came to me

gas grill ignitor.....

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The war is over. It's been 3 days since I've seen one in the yard. I lost count how many chipmunks we got I think 5 total and at least a few mice..

fwiw a match on a stick works well. And quick

took a ride

there's a disproportionate colony of munks

on the east side ........

House sitting my girlfriend's parent's home in Truro and the cat just brought one into the house alive. Carrying the thing from the back of the neck like it was a kitten. Dropped it, then caught it again. Girlfriend screamed. Scooted the rodent out the door.

haha!

i hear no chippy chirps

She keeps closing the screen door and I 'accidentally' keep leaving it open whenever I go outside (secretly hoping the cat does it again).

My tunneling problems have stopped. Bleach works to kick them out of the burrows for good. So does propane :hee:

I haven't seen any kicking around the garage now. The shop however is a different story. BIG coyote behind the building this morning. Hope he had a nice chipmunk breakfast...they're living under my propane tanks now.

Watched her stalk and take down two more. Girlfriend ran and closed the door before the cat could get inside. I got yelled at again for keeping the door open.

...they're living under my propane tanks now.


Go for the Molotov Cocktail! Fire up those tanks....:devil2:

man i wouldn't want to be around if those ever went.

:eek:

well if you were
you wouldn't be around :rotf2:

Salty, if they ever come back... set a trap...

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Damn things started drilling my wall again a few weeks ago.

1 Qt Lacquer Thinner toss a handful into each hole

Propane torch on a stick

POOF I never knew lacquer thinner burned so good. I had 4' flames comin out of his holes I put the hose on it and it wouldn't go out :hee:

Haven't seen fresh digging in a few days :hidin:

Lol!!!!
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Definitely one of those here hold my beer moments nebe :hee:

hey boogie.. chipmunks make good bass bait!
round 'em up!

YouTube - Largemouth Bass Eats Ground Squirrel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMqDO3jIzHw&feature=related)

Where do you put the hook? Without getting f&^%&% bit?

they're awake already cuz they're running around the yard everywhere.