Please stop talking about this. The subject is "humane way to get rid of chipmunks". Drowning is inhumane. And in some states it's illegal to kill chipmunks.

Anonymous wrote:Get a 5 gallon bucket and fill it up 3/4 with water. Build a ramp with a piece of wood and sprinkle sunflower seeds on the ramp and a lot of seeds on top of the water so they cover the surface. The chipmunks snack their way up then dive in.

This. We have used this method a lot and will need to use it again unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you leaving your car open?

You realize that the bottom of the car isn't sealed. Rodents can climb up into the engine and build nests and chew wires.

Not just the engine - rodents made their way into my vehicle via the engine block and chewed all the napkins in the glovebox, then they started in on chewing the cushions in the seats, and leaving pieces of napkins and seat cushion foam in various nooks and crannies throughout the vehicle.

Automobiles are not sealed environments and rodents will find a way, if they wish to.

Anonymous wrote:Get a 5 gallon bucket and fill it up 3/4 with water. Build a ramp with a piece of wood and sprinkle sunflower seeds on the ramp and a lot of seeds on top of the water so they cover the surface. The chipmunks snack their way up then dive in.

I hope no one is cruel enough to do this. Can we lock this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:How do they destroy your property? The ones we have dig holes in the yard but that's it.

They are climbing up into our car and chewing things.

I wonder if you could put poison where they are chewing.

NP. I worry that they would die somewhere and a neighbor's dog or other animal could be killed by eating the corpse.

Thanks for thinking of the doggies ☺️

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t do anything other than dig holes. So cute. Why would you even think of calling an exterminator on a cute little family. Only animals that have chewed our things outside are the mice.

I hate to break it to you but they do. We saw it happen on our Ring.

Can you post that please? Not calling you a liar, I just really want to see for the cuteness

You're a horrible person, OP. Is there a humane way to get rid of people? And if that offends you, now you understand why trying to kill chipmunks is offensive. I never ceases to amaze me how people want to get rid of wildlife. You're in their habitat. Deal with it. I doubt they are destroying your entire property. It's not even winter time. What makes you think they are interested in your car, except to escape you guys trying to kill them on their own territory. They are the cutest things. So sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you leaving your car open?

You realize that the bottom of the car isn't sealed. Rodents can climb up into the engine and build nests and chew wires.

You don't have to kill to solve this. You can soak cotton balls in peppermint oil and stick it up under your car to deter them. They also sell pest deterrent to spray under your car.

Chipmunks are cute but burrow holes under sidewalks and porches and eventually cause them to collapse

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Certain cars coat their electric wires with a soy-based, not plastic-based, coating.

This phenomenon is the reason rodents reach into the interior of cars *from the underside* to chew the wires.

I've only seen rats doing this, not mice or chipmunks. It's surprising to me that rodents would do this now, when there should be plenty to eat elsewhere - unless you're in a very urban, arid, or predator-heavy locale, OP?

Anyway. It's too bad you're killing chipmunks.

We had squirrels chew the wires under the hood of our car. On a separate occasion it was mice. They also tear apart any insulation under the hood for nesting.

This works great:

https://www.trap-anything.com/homemade-chipmunk-trap.html

Certain cars coat their electric wires with a soy-based, not plastic-based, coating.

This phenomenon is the reason rodents reach into the interior of cars *from the underside* to chew the wires.

I've only seen rats doing this, not mice or chipmunks. It's surprising to me that rodents would do this now, when there should be plenty to eat elsewhere - unless you're in a very urban, arid, or predator-heavy locale, OP?

Anyway. It's too bad you're killing chipmunks.

We live trap them and then drop them off in a corn field!

But more appear!

They’ve made a nest in my car but I think they got tired of going for rides - I now feed them peanuts in locations that are more appropriate. Keeps them occupied

Catch them and then drown them in 5 gallon buckets.