Post what you are thinking right now, part two

[rock hound]

The chipmunks are now raiding my cherry tomatoes.  Moved the entire planter closer to the porch and the house like I did Amber's strawberry plant.  That should deter the little fuckers somewhat.

Give me a CO₂ repeating pellet gun and a 6 pack of beer and I'll get rid of those chipmunks. 

If it continues, I may take you up on that offer....or buy the damned pellet gun myself!  My father in law took care of many a woodchuck with his 22.  You didn't mess with a college professor feeding his wife and 6 children's food source.  And nothing messes with my veggies.

[DirtDawg]

I think that this guy is a NUT/GENIUS.

His "Marble Machine X"  in getting closer to completion all the time. Remember the first effort video I posted a couple of years ago?
This is a partway look at his newest efforts.

[Pyraxis]

Holy crap, yes. I can't wait to see how it runs when it's finished.

[Icequeen]

Didn't know chipmunks eat cherry tomatoes too. I guess I'll need to watch that.

Just started seeing them again here after about 20+ years and our "re-location project" from the early 90's late 80's. Used to be a ton of those suckers running around.

I think we re-homed over 30 of them. It worked well, too well. Didn't see ANY for years.

[renaeden]

Hmmm, not familiar with chipmunks. Raccoons, though, been watching videos of them. They're cute but aren't they destructive? In the videos, it looks like they're kept as pets.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Chipmunks are kind of like tiny squirrels.

When I was in the States my gf and I stayed in a hotel inside a nature reserve or national park or whatever you guys call it in Virginia. There were chipmunks scurrying around the breakfast dining area picking up scraps. Lots of chipmunks. My gf laughed at me when I called them "midget squirrels" - I don't think I'd even seen a photo of a real chipmunk, so I was only familiar with the cartoon version.

We saw a black bear and some cubs too. Not in the breakfast area though.

[Al Swearegen]

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[Icequeen]

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[DirtDawg]

Didn't know chipmunks eat cherry tomatoes too. I guess I'll need to watch that.

Just started seeing them again here after about 20+ years and our "re-location project" from the early 90's late 80's. Used to be a ton of those suckers running around.

I think we re-homed over 30 of them. It worked well, too well. Didn't see ANY for years.

I have many of those damn "grassrats" in the neighborhood, along with raccoons, opossums, hedgehogs and rabbits. Rabbits eat my greens, opossums eat my fruit and tomatoes and grassrats just trash all my potted herbs. Raccoons mostly just dig and go through the garbage, making a big mess AND climbing all over my trellises and running around on the roof at night.
THAT sucks! 

I recommend a dog. Both my recent dogs have helped tremendously. My last dog was apparently trained to leave rabbits alone. I have seen him just sit quietly watching a family of rabbits ravage my broccoli, but when he stood up out of his crouching, stalking position the rabbits ran like hell!
And even though both the opossums and raccoons were twice his size, he kept them on the run.

My current dog chases everything away. He won't even allow birds to land without engaging chase mode. Not much trouble from invading "pests" this year.

Last year I had my pump pellet guns (I have a pistol which fires sub-sonic and a powerful carbine which fires at speeds well over the speed of sound and will absolutely kill anything on four paws in my neighborhood) loaded and ready most all season after seeing the rabbits just gorging on my salad garden, but when I saw my late chihuahua stalking them and just passively scaring them away, I just felt that it was handled. I never shot one.

[DirtDawg]

Hmmm, not familiar with chipmunks. Raccoons, though, been watching videos of them. They're cute but aren't they destructive? In the videos, it looks like they're kept as pets.

Many ignorant people try to keep wild animals as pets and as intelligent as raccoons are they manage to trade their freedom for meal security with people fairly successfully, but they are still "destructive" if not caged most of the time.

Chipmunks are like quarter-sized squirrels. Another wild animal often kept as a pet, sadly. They have to be caged, most of the time. Take them out and play with them, feed them and such, but they generally escape at first opportunity.

[DirtDawg]

Holy crap, yes. I can't wait to see how it runs when it's finished.

He has an enormous series of videos on the process, this time. He has attracted a few sponsors, as well. One crew helping him has a CNC machine.
He also has engineering friends anxious to be a part of the project. This Marble Machine X creation, from start to finish, is very well documented!

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

You guys have some strange wildlife.

We get the occasional possum. Big ones, one climbed our baby apple tree to get at the fruit and the whole tree fell over. Foxes sometimes, and deer apparently although I've never seen one. Wallabies. The worst are the cockatoos, they destroy anything they can get their beaks on. The kookaburras make me nervous when they hang around the backyard. It'a likely they're looking for their favourite food. Snakes. And most of the snakes around here are deadly fuckers.