<p>Need some help getting rid of critters in my yard and flower beds. If I can do so humanely, all the better. A neighbor boy offered to come over with his BB gun. I opted out of that plan!</p>
<p>Any experience with traps, etc on this forum?? Or other ideas??</p>
<p>I know they can cause some real damage to structures, etc. Thankfully, that’s not the problem…yet. My issue is that my dog digs after them, wreaking havoc among my stone knee wall and my plants! </p>
<p>I love the dog. The chipmunks? Not so much…</p>
<p>It sounds like the dog, not the chipmunks is the problem. You need to keep your dog, not the chipmunks out of your garden. Never heard of chipmunk damage except holes in the yard- first time this year.</p>
<p>It is almost impossible to get rid of chipmunks. There isn’t much in the ‘trap them’ department unless you want to try chipmunk ‘swimming pools’. In desperation I did try them, but only one ever drowned in it. Others seem to have better success with them.</p>
<p>Poisons do not seem to work with them. </p>
<p>Sorry to sound like such a downer, but I don’t think you are going to have much success here. From what I have researched, few are able to get rid of them.</p>
<p>When we had an outdoor cat, she took care of the chipmunks. She would leave headless chipmunk bodies on the front mat for us. Kitty has been gone over 10 years, and we are overrun! They do dig a lot in the stone walls lining the driveway, which drives my H crazy.</p>
<p>My mom has my nephew bring over his BB gun to take care of the chipmunks in her rock garden. I have not witnessed this personally… They don’t tell my SIL (his mom), who is a very soft hearted animal lover what he is doing. She just thinks he is taking the BB gun over to take practice shots in the woods around my parent’s house.</p>
<p>I have chipmunks everywhere. Really not much can be done and besides they are so cute. I have three dogs but none of them care about the chipmunks and none are diggers, either. </p>
<p>They can get into your home so watch around the foundation. My neighbor found some nesting in the drawers under her washer and dryer. They came in threw the hose!</p>
<p>Putting pepper on the plants helps keep squirls and deer out, so would it work for chipmunks? They try to eat the plants and get a surpise with it and avoid it.</p>
<p>We have chipmunks galore at my house, or at least we did last year. They love to hide in overgrown grass, so trim your property around the edges, and try to keep things neat and clean. I tried to kill them by filling a bucket with water, and pouring sunflower seeds over the top (a tip I got on the internet). The chipmunk will be attracted by the sunflower seeds, fall into the bucket and drown. After tempting poor Alvin for a few hours, he finally fell in! Success! An hour later, Alvin was still treading water, and I couldn’t stand it and scooped him out. He lay on the ground, panting for a while, then took off, more slowly than I have ever seen him. I don’t think I saw him for the rest of the summer, and the squirrels ate the rest of the sunflower seeds. I still have half a bag, if anyone wants some. But I still don’t know how to get rid of chipmunks.</p>
<p>Chipmunks are rats with better PR. They look cute but they are vermin and carry disease. Use the chipmunk bath method mentioned above and drown them. It works, just make sure to fill a lg bucket no more than 1/2 way (Home Depot orange buckets work well). </p>
<p>The coyote has taken care of the chipmunk, rabbit and loose pet problem It also made the local news, as coyotes are not common around here. There was an “incident” with a trap being set for the coyote (or should I say last year’s coyote) that didn’t end well. Not a pretty result. I’ll spare you the details.</p>
<p>^^Yikes about the trap. We have a commune of coyotes in the woods at the end of our street. Sometimes we can hear them howling and singing their happy coyote songs at night. Then the local dogs chime in… Luckily, I learned to tune out these nighttime symphonies.</p>
<p>We had chipmunks living in yards in our cul de sac for years. A few years ago a chipmunk family moved into a neighbor’s car that wasn’t being used. They were all over the place! </p>
<p>This year, they are all gone. We couldn’t figure out why until this weekend, when we found a very well fed garter snake under some bushes.</p>
<p>Import some indigenous non-poisonous snakes.</p>
<p>We had chipmunks living in my garage 2 winters ago and I put in an electronic rodent repellor (Victor UltraSonic Pest Chaser) and I couldn’t believe how well they worked. Within the first day the chipminks were all gone. I am not sure how well they would work in a large area but they could be worth a try. I know that there are now some bigger ones and what is really nice is that dog is not affected at all by them. The ones I bought came in a package of 3 ($10.00) and I put one in the garage, one in the basement and one on the front stoop. I have no chipmunks or rodents at all any more.</p>
<p>I’d opt for the BB gun. The chipmipunks will never know what hit them. It seems less brutal to go instantly than to experience the fear and panic of drowning.</p>
It also made the local news, as coyotes are not common around here. There was an “incident” with a trap being set for the coyote (or should I say last year’s coyote) that didn’t end well. Not a pretty result. I’ll spare you the details.</p>