27/01/2025
Seeing chipmunks scurrying around…
You might be tempted to catch and relocate them to prevent the little holes they might make in your lawn. Please don’t! Relocation isn’t a humane solution, especially this time of year. A chipmunk spends the entirety of fall collecting an enormous stash of nuts and acorns for its underground larder. When winter arrives, it retreats to its burrow and eats only food it was able to store in the preceding months.
When you relocate a chipmunk, you take it away from its hard-earned stash of winter food, leaving it to starve. Chipmunks relocated to new areas are also often chased away by competitors and left without any space for warmth and safety.
Please leave your chipmunk neighbors in peace!
They mean you no harm and are simply trying to survive.