Re: [CH] Re: Chipmunks
dan combs (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:18:05 -0500
At 09:40 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, Dorothy Sheets wrote:
>Anyway, I went to Home Depot, bought one of those Hav-a-hart (no kill)
>traps. Caught 'em and relocated 'em (one at a time) to the woods a few
>miles away. They haven't come back. Cat AND peppers are both doing fine.
>
>Good luck with YOUR chipmunk relo program!
Sorry, but those of us who live in the woods would prefer you _not_
relocate your problem animals to our neighborhoods, for a couple of very
valid reasons. One is the woods are generally in a population balance with
rodents and animals and relocating animals to a balanced ecosystem probably
is a sentence of misery for something anyway. It's not witnessed by the
people who do the relocating, but that means nothing except like in
Shakespeare, the violence is always offstage.
A second reason is I personally don't want any animals moving into my patch
of land that are already trained in the art of looting trashcans and
chile-patches.
I do occasionally trap a 'coon or 'possum just to take it back into the
city and turn it loose in the suburbs. More often than not though, it's
The 12-Gauge Solution. I've already killed our downspout and a garden hose
this year with scattered buckshot spray. Don't make me do more damage.
carp