On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 09:12:10 -0400, Boron Elgar wrote:

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:49:36 -0400, songbird
wrote:

Steve Peek wrote:
General Schvantzkoph wrote:

I just saw a chipmunk eating my blueberries, any suggestions about how
to
kill them? My cats are indoor cats because it's no longer safe for
cats in my neighborhood. I'm going to set a number of mousetraps, are
there any poisons that are good for chipmunks?

Use the rat trap & bait with peanut butter. IMHO they are just as or
more so tasty than squirrel. You just need more for a meal.

if you have ants and birds around you may want
to put them under a box with gaps in the sides. otherwise you'll find
birds in the rat traps too.

if you have extra sunflower seeds i mix them
in the peanut butter.


songbird

I have never found birds in the rat traps, but I always set them in
chipmunk runs between plants or tubs on the deck. IT isn't hard to see
where they are coming from and in the "real" garden, they leave obvious
holes. And really, there is no need to use anything beyond the cheapest
scrapings from an peanut butter jar. Frankly, I don't cater meals to
critters I am looking to knock off and I don't have trouble getting them
in the plain traps, either, with just a hint of peanut butter scent and
"l'eau de dead chipmunk."

I have found many odd creatures in the Have-a-Heart traps we set out for
groundhogs, though...skunks, possums, raccoons, cats, crows....and the
groundhogs, natch.

Boron

I'll get a bunch of rat traps at Home Depot today, a couple of the mouse
traps that I set out yesterday were tripped but they didn't catch
anything. I'm also going to get some rat poison. The area around my
blueberries is fully netted so catching birds won't be a problem.