On 6/3/17 8:36 AM, justan wrote:
Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 6/3/17 5:56 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:57:14 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/1/17 7:10 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:42:54 -0400,
wrote:

On Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:12:18 -0400, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

Six in nine days at the same location!

The damn things are becoming worse than the squirrel population around here.


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Get a good cat. To them chipmunks are just a mouse with racing
stripes. Of course your bird population will suffer a bit also.



Snakes are a better option.


Shoot 'em. Shoot 'em all. Napalm their homes, flood their tunnels, Agent
Orange their habitat. After all, they're part of that dangerous crowd of
marauding mexican chipmunks. Kill all the birds, too, and the squirrels
and any wandering foxes. Dig up the group and get thos nasty earthworms.
Cut down your trees and pave over the grass. That'll teach those nasty
critters.

I wish I could buy a couple dozen foxes to let loose in the neighborhood.


Maybe that's why I don't see chipmunks around here...foxes! We have
foxes on patrol.

You need to fit your foxes with muzzles.
When we were living somewhere else I watched a red fox tree a cat.
He kept the cat at bay for quite a while until the cat decided to
come down the tree, swat the fox across the nose, and run off.
The fox stood there dumbfounded for a while then left the yard.
The same day we were visited by a herd of deer and later, before
sunset, about 20 turkeys wandered into the yard and hung out till
dusk when they flew up into trees to spend the night.




We have...foxes, raccoons, rabbits, hawks, deer, groundhogs, geese, an
occasional field mouse*, little lizards, cardinals, bluebirds, snakes,
and possibly bears. My wife saw a "large mammal" shaking a tree while it
climbed it and it "definitely was not a cat or dog."



* About once a year, a little mouse finds its way into the house...and
one of my cats plays with it for a while and unless we catch the mouse
and release it outside, the cat rips it to shreds.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 08:18:52 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/3/17 5:56 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:

I wish I could buy a couple dozen foxes to let loose in the neighborhood.


Maybe that's why I don't see chipmunks around here...foxes! We have
foxes on patrol.

I was ready to say you should have them there. We saw one occasionally
in Clinton but they do keep a pretty low profile. They are tough on
chickens tho and people will shoot them.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 08:42:35 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:


We have...foxes, raccoons, rabbits, hawks, deer, groundhogs, geese, an
occasional field mouse*, little lizards, cardinals, bluebirds, snakes,
and possibly bears. My wife saw a "large mammal" shaking a tree while it
climbed it and it "definitely was not a cat or dog."


I said earlier, I bet you either have bears or will have soon. They
are rapidly expanding their habitat and coexist with humans quite well
,,, until someone gets hurt. I bet hogs will find their way to you
soon too. You may not be as accepting of them when they start rooting
up all of your wife's ornamental plants. At that point you may start
rethinking the idea of "feeding the birds".


* About once a year, a little mouse finds its way into the house...and
one of my cats plays with it for a while and unless we catch the mouse
and release it outside, the cat rips it to shreds.

I think we have a rat in the screen cage (or garage) somewhere but I
have not been able to catch him. If there is still any indication of
that when I get home, I am catching a snake and turning him loose in
there.
Within a week or two there will not be anything else living in there.
(frogs, lizards or rodents)

On 6/3/17 9:56 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 08:18:52 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/3/17 5:56 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:

I wish I could buy a couple dozen foxes to let loose in the neighborhood.


Maybe that's why I don't see chipmunks around here...foxes! We have
foxes on patrol.

I was ready to say you should have them there. We saw one occasionally
in Clinton but they do keep a pretty low profile. They are tough on
chickens tho and people will shoot them.


I like 'em...beautiful animals.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 13:30:43 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/3/17 9:56 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jun 2017 08:18:52 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/3/17 5:56 AM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:

I wish I could buy a couple dozen foxes to let loose in the neighborhood.


Maybe that's why I don't see chipmunks around here...foxes! We have
foxes on patrol.

I was ready to say you should have them there. We saw one occasionally
in Clinton but they do keep a pretty low profile. They are tough on
chickens tho and people will shoot them.


I like 'em...beautiful animals.

I am OK with most critters but I do not have any chickens.
The people around me go nuts with the armadillos and raccoons. They
are OK in my yard.
People also have problems with the gopher tortoises. We have them
tagged and named. They will dig a huge hole so you just need to stay
on top of it and get them to pick another spot. If you catch them
early, just throw a rip rap stone in the hole. They think they hit
coral rock and move on.