I think my husband has finally lost his mind...

[mcctatas]

we've been having a chipmunk problem, it was OK when they were just eating the garden, a little less so when they chewed up stuff in the garage, but then they started getting into the furnace room. Mr. mcctatas has gotten progressively screwier about the little fuckers and tonight he says:

"Chipmunks have made me understand why mankind goes to war with each other. I tried living along side them and that didn't work. I tried reasoning with them" (I didn't ask the obvious how does one reason with a rodent question here) "I tried relocating the worst offenders" (he would drive the live traps out to the country and let them go) "And now I am convinced that it must be nothing less than total annihilation, tomorrow morning I'm going to make some chipmunk tea in a bucket" "Chipmunk tea?" says I, "yes, I'm putting the whole trap in there until the last one of them stops squirming"

Um, :wtf: I think I have him deterred, but who knew a little rodent could drive one to genocide???

[Kali]

1. I was warring with packrats, mice, and squirrels last year...

still am, but this year I have a bottle raised squirrel in the living room :eyes:

[Solon]

2. Its a war he's going to lose, just to let you know...

for both your sanity's sake and his own, I say you surrender to the little rodents, it just makes things easier.

:P

[mcctatas]

3. I actually think they're kinda cute...

not that I want them in my furnace room;)

[Solon]

4. My sister had a family of them inside their fireplace for the summer...

it was in my Grandma's very small condo that she let my sister and her newly wed husband live in. The place is old, my parents lived there when they first married as well, and the fireplace wall had a small crack in it, on the outside, that allowed the chipmunks to make a nest in there. It drove the dog nuts, but my sister thought they were so cute! They left on their own after the babies matured, and then my Grandmother had the crack sealed afterwards.

[quakerboy]

5. Its an easily solved problem

Adopt a family of wolverines. Put a right quick end to the chippie infestation.

[mcctatas]

6. Oh no...

it would create a viscous circle, then I'd have to adopt a bigger meaner family of critters to rid me of the wolverines and eventually I'd end up with the Cheney's living in my furnace room :scared:

[quakerboy]

9. Come now.

a nice large family of Palins would carry much more firepower, and easily displace the Cheneys.

Then of course, you just find remote control wolf, and they will follow it right on out, at which point you lock the door behind them. It is well known that Palins cannot fit in through cracks.

[mcctatas]

11. Maybe just a huge can of spermicide???

:hide:

[marzipanni]

13. Oyez! A fire extinguisher full of spermicide

to attack the viscous circle!

[marzipanni]

12. LOL! I can just see Dick and Lynn in a giant Havahart® trap!

What could you bait it with? Where would you release them?

After I caught about ten roof rats over the years with a Havahart® trap, my husband blocked some holes by which the little roof rats accessed our attic, otherwise I was thinking about resorting to a Zimbabwean rat trap. Your husband might like this idea, like making chipmunk tea without the direct act of dunking them-
http://journeytoforever.org/at_rattrap3.html

[KitchenWitch]

15. One word... Badgers!

:D

[TieDyedDad]

7. ya mean like this guy...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Mr GoG decided to evict the raccoons from our attic...

He went up there with one of those aerosol "screamer" products and a freaking machete. Chased them out of the attic without physically assaulting them, thank gods, then boarded up the vent windows so they couldn't get back in.

[mcctatas]

10. I cannot wrap my mind around my husband drowning a bunch

of cute little critters, I really don't think he has it in him, but he keeps talking about them "taunting" him by leaving half eaten cucumbers on the garden fence. He is normally a rational man, but the furry little fuckwits have driven him round the twist!!!!

If I picture him as someone elses hubby, it's pretty freaking funny, hell, even though its mine, it's still funny :rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. Do you have a zoo nearby?

What you need to do is spread a little predator poo near the place where they enter the furnace room.

[NV Whino]

16. I'll trade you my raccoons for your chipmunks.

I feel your husband's pain. Truly, I do.