How to Get Rid of Chipmunks: An Environmentally Friendly Solution

Chipmunks can be a real nuisance in your yard and garden. They burrow and make tunnels through your lawn. They eat your plants and attack your vegetation. The best solution is to use live traps. This way they can be transported to a different location, preferably away from other people's property. You can take them and their families out to a wooded area in the country and let them go.

Some other suggestions are to use cayenne pepper or bloodmeal, which repels them. If you use a mixture of baby powder with cayenne pepper and spray it on your vegetation it will repel chipmunks and squirrels. They don't like the odor. It is also environmentally friendly.

Someone else suggested putting chestnuts around which chipmunks hate. I never heard of a chipmunk hating any kind of nut. I suppose you might invite more squirrels that way and you might end up reading suggestions on getting read of squirrels next.Supposedly it is true though that chipmunks hate chestnuts.

You can find more solutions to your chipmunk problem at this web site.

On a more personal note I have included my experience with chipmunks. Please continue reading about my brother's experience with ridding my aunt's property of the pesky little rodents.

My aunt and uncle had just purchased their dream house and a couple of acres of heavenly bliss. I still remember the creek running behind their house and the beautiful yellow cherry tree. I ate cherries until I was half-sick from that gorgeous tree. Heaven will be filled with fruit trees and berries.

My brother became intrigued with the little chipmunks that were prowling around the property. He decided after hearing from my aunt that these chipmunks were a nuisance, that he could solve the problem. He got the garden hose and filled a chipmunk hole with water. He was able to flood a chipmunk from it's hiding place and it lay on it's back on the ground in a lifeless state. My brother who actually was more of an adventurer than a hunter took action. He started performing artificial respiration on the little lifeless creature. I don't think that he had to do mouth to mouth, but I clearly remember him pumping the little chipmunk's arms up and down.

The amazing thing is that it actually worked. The dazed little critter popped its eyes open and staggered away. This became an entertaining activity for my brother. I wouldn't suggest trying this with your own chipmunks at home but I still chuckle to myself when I remember this story. The future of my aunt's dream property took a horrible turn not long after they lived there when the Palm Sunday Tornado ravaged our area. You can read about it in a previous article that I wrote if you are interested.

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