Follow-up: Chipmunk in the basement

[deckeda]

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1705017

Apparently it came back in the basement? A few minutes ago I hear cage rattling. I hadn't touched the trap, still set from 23 days ago. Note: chipmunks are OK with 3-wk old moldy apple.

I think we'll go for a little car ride and discretely release out of view.

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As for prevention I'm unsure what to do. There's a noticeable gap at the bottom, where the basement's french doors meet. From the outside, it looks normal but inside you see like a 2" tall gap about 1/2" wide. I'm assuming this is the entry/exit path. I don't know where else something that size would get in, as the foundation is pretty secure and it's a finished basement.

All of the exterior house doors use special tabbed hinges with 4 offset screws (arrayed like a zig-zag, not lined up in an arc or whatever. ) Apparently this is a design special to a company named Therma Tru but I can't find anything on their parts page, nor is it apparent from looking at the door something's missing. http://www.thermatru.com/products/patio/...index.aspx

[Racer X]

Just get a mountain lion.....

[mstudio]

I had a few squirrels in the basement of my rental house and could not figure out how they were getting in because it's very tight. Finally realized they were getting in via a roof vent they chewed through and crawled down inside the walls to get to the basement.

[deckeda]

"Mission Accomplished"

[OWC Jamie]

chipmunks will check out anything and enter a trap just out of curiosity.

a half mile is not far enough


how about the rest of its family ?

there's never just one

[deckeda]

I drove about 7-8 miles away on the other side of an interstate highway. The trap goes back until I can find a solution for the french doors.

[Speedy]

miley_gun_sniper:

[vision63]

Well good. I'm glad you went though the trouble of being as good as you could to our Chipmunk friend. It's fun hearing about it.

[pdq]

Reminds me of back when we had a raccoon eatin garden stuff, climbing under the deck and jus generally agitatin our dawgz. Set a live trap, and next mornin, we had one live, but _very_ pissed off raccoon in a cage. The thing would back up against one wall and then hiss and strike against the other wall of the cage like a freeking cobra.

I took it a mile south to the park with the lake and...let it go. (Rabid? God only knows, but I couldn't just drown it, y'know?) I took the cage (with the possessed-raccoon bashing around inside it) in the back of the Prius along with a hockey stick and a tennis racket. The hockey stick was to awkwardly open the cage from a distance to release the raccoon, and the tennis racket was in case it came for me!

I sometimes wish there had been a camera crew there, and on other days I'm glad there wernt. Fortunately for me, once ol Rocky got outa that cage, he was far more interested in freedom than revenge. Zoom- he was gone into the brush and deep weeds. And (fortunately!) that was the last we saw of him.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Speedy wrote:
miley_gun_sniper:

+1. Rodents are like Doritos: They'll make more!