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Post by Goosey on Jul 28, 2011 8:58:08 GMT -5
Besides the cat, anyone know a good way to trap a chipmunk?  I suspect the cat brought it in the pet door and played too long til it got away. I'm all for letting the cat finnish the job, but my kids don't agree :stumped: |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 28, 2011 9:03:39 GMT -5
I'd use a live trap. You can pick 'em up at some hardware stores and they'll trap an animal without harming it. I read to use peanut butter w/sunflower seeds as bait.
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Post by Goosey on Jul 28, 2011 9:49:13 GMT -5
Well for now I put some peanut butter on a nacho and left it in a bucket with a ramp...bucket works for hampsters, but I think the chippy may be able to jump higher. It was just in the garbage can down there, but before I could geta bag for over the top of it I think he got away  |
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Post by 2strokd on Jul 28, 2011 10:24:21 GMT -5
lol, good method Goosey! Sounds like you have had some practice..
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 28, 2011 16:38:13 GMT -5
i recomend a herd of boy scouts with sticks and rocks they will take care of that chipmunk faster then any cat
but then again they will do the same job the cat would
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Post by Goosey on Jul 28, 2011 17:06:13 GMT -5
LOL, well that is an interesting image  My daughter actually managed to catch the chipmunk. It hid under the dryer, she put towels around the dryer bottom and put the hamper in front of it, the chipmunk ran into the hamper.  She took it to the park a couple miles down the road. My cat is so mad right now. |
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 28, 2011 18:05:34 GMT -5
it is a great show to watch my scouts have turned it into a great sport to watch
i remind them from time to time that the chipmunks that get away will get there revenge when they are sleeping
and when we are at summer camp we sleep in canvas tents set up on wooden floors and no bug netting in them
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Post by Goosey on Jul 28, 2011 18:14:09 GMT -5
LOL, nothing like the pitter patter of little feet running accross your toes. Could be worse, could be spiders  |
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Post by Reign on Jul 28, 2011 18:16:29 GMT -5
LOL, nothing like the pitter patter of little feet running accross your toes. Could be worse, could be spiders The one reason I actually like Wisconsin. We don't have any deadly spiders here. Yet... :scared: :help: |
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Post by jmkjr72 on Jul 28, 2011 18:17:05 GMT -5
yeah it could be one of those big nasty yellow and black barn spiders
thank go we havent had any this year yet
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Post by Goosey on Jul 28, 2011 19:04:36 GMT -5
LOL, we get some pretty good size Wolf spiders around here by the river. My friend thought she heard a mouse and when she spotted it running it was a spider. Those yellow and black ones are pretty  |
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Post by Fox on Jul 28, 2011 22:49:55 GMT -5
Here in the San Gabriel Mountains we have Rattle Snakes, Gopher Snakes, Coyotes, Bobcats, Cougars, Bears, Deer, Brown Recluse spiders, Black Widows, Rats, Mice, Squirrels, Moles, Gophers, Lizards... I walk outside at night and walk into big spiral webs made by spiders that look like this one sometimes. The creepy feeling never goes away. I hate webs on my face.  The Brown Recluses can kill small children and they'll make an adult very ill.  |
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Post by marshinman on Jul 29, 2011 7:15:14 GMT -5
While we dont have as many dangerous animals/insects as they do in California. We have our share here in North Carolina. We have Copper Head snakes, rattle snakes, Bobcats, Deer, Too Many Squirrels, Black widow spiders, Fiddlerback spiders. One spider we have here that looks like it would be dangerous is the Orb Weaver, although the spider is harmless and is very helpful in controlling the other insects.  We also have Japanese hornets a real terror if you get within 50 foot of their hive.  While I did not take this picture I would in no way ever have one on my hand, to be stung by one is like having a burning hot nail stabbed into you, once was enough to learn this lesson. |
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Post by 90GTVert on Jul 29, 2011 8:11:43 GMT -5
We have tons of orb weavers around here. I was crawling around under a car one day and saw a neon orange spider coming at me, quite large. I got the hell away from it fast. lol I figured neon meant poisonous. Later found out it's another type of orb weaver. Most of ours look like the one in Jeff's pic. I grow to hate them when fall comes. Seems like every time I go around a turn on the mower I get hit in the face by the web or occasionally the spider, which is not cool by me.  I have had a snake fall out of a tree and onto the mower once, and I'll take the spider over that. I jumped off of the lawnmower and then had to run it down before it went into the swampy area back here (it was years ago and the mower had no safety that needs weight on the seat). Had to be hilarious to watch. A friend had a brown recluse in his house. He said it was the craziest spider he's seen. So many spiders don't do much or try to get away but he said it was very aggressive and kept coming at them. I'd be running down the street, little spider behind me. :rofl: |
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Post by marshinman on Jul 29, 2011 8:36:33 GMT -5
I could just see you jumping off the mower and having to chase it down. That would be a Kodak moment. :lol:
You running down the road while a spider chases you, as big as you are and afraid of a spider that you can just step on.
Last year I was mowing the grass on the outside area of my fence in the back yard, both of my dogs were barking at the same side of the fence where I was mowing. I couldnt figure out why they were barking when all of a sudden I felt a thump under the mower deck and like I had ran over a tree branch or bigger. I looked to the side where the grass shoot is and saw something brown in several pieces go flying out. Upon further observation I found I had ran over a cotton mouth snake, it was about 5 foot in length and about 8 inches in diameter at its largest point.
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