Killed my first chipmunk

Need the special sauce, and make chipmunk McNuggets. 6 eaches for $2.99 and drive up service available.

Try a cat. That's all you need.

I have red tailed hawks, merlins, a bald eagle that spends about three months in winter, and all kinds of other birds that eat chipmunks. I have yet to see them get one.

The other day, a kit fox came in. He was chasing a lizard among some rocks. A roadrunner was less than six feet away, as well as chipmunks and cottontail rabbits. All watching it like an episode of American Gladiators. The fox didn't pay any attention to any of the other animals. Must really like lizards is all I could figure. We have coyotes that come in the yard. Lots of predators, including a fat lazy cat that hunts, but only for fun. She does get lizards and mice, but doesn't seem to mess with the chipmunks. I think she's been bitten, so avoids them. Around here, I would need twelve cats, and feed them nothing so they would hunt. But even then, I don't think they'd keep up with the chipmunk population.

Steve

"SteveB" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:

Or they're easier than the other prey.

ferrets,minks,or similar animals would be able to hunt them even in their burrows.(especially the chipmunk babies!)

is the lizard one of those chuckwallas?

Myself,I would enjoy such a large population of wildlife.

Bugs gotta eat just like the worms.

Hey, I caught a mole in the same trap,same bait. Amazing.

Check out "Towser," a Guiness Book of Records entrant.

Towser (1963-1987) was, for 23 years, the mouser-in-chief at the Glenturret Distillery in Scotland. During her tenure, she caught and killed 28,899 mice (plus a few random rats, pheasants, and an occasional rabbit). There's a bronze statue of Towser at the distillery entrance.

The significant thing for the OP is Towser never stemmed the tide of mice. They were just breeding cat food and the cat wisely never killed so many mice that the breeding population was affected.

I think HeyBub has a function key programmed with the above paragraph or something. Every single time the topic of rodent control comes up, he posts it like clockwork.....