[CH] Chipmunx
Frank J. Hashek (fhashek@comcast.net)
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 22:56:09 -0500
Dave said: "Humane traps are not in order unless you can put the trapee in a
safe situation.
Otherwise, you're just dumping your garbage into someone else's yard."
Carp said: "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."
and
"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."
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I agree 100% with the above. Chipmunks may be cute rats, but they are still
rats. The only solution is a permanent one. The only way to use the humane
traps is to humanely dunk them and their chipmunk contents under water.
It's all part of the evolutionary process, survival of the fittest.
Chipmunks/rats are not fit to be in my garden, and I will not give mine to
anyone else. Caught one in my Black Hole (tm) trap this morning, leaving
dozens of chiles to live.
Frank