Rodents are the scourge of the earth.

How would you like to have a neighbor who feeds the chipmunks? I have a neighbor, 2 houses away, who puts out peanuts (in the shell) for the squirrels and the chipmunks. I have munk holes all over my yard and am always finding empty peanut shells around.

I don't know who is more evil -- the crazy neighbor lady or the four-legged vermin.

The woman is bizarre; she hates the hawk that frequents the area because it kills the squirrels and the chipmunks. She's outside every evening with a bucket of peanuts and other goodies for the "cute" rodents.

Grrrrrr!

Good luck with the bucket trap! If only they had a trap like that for lunatic people...

I've found a pretty effective method for catching chipmunks. I've captured 11 in the past 2 days. I fill a 3 gallon water bottle (the kind thats used for a water dispenser). Locate one of their holes. Open the jug and put the open end in the hole. The chipmunks will swim right into the container. It's then your choice to relocate the critter or fill the jug up completely and cap it.

This method has worked amazingly well.

what damage are they doing in your shed and is there a way to plug up holes where they can enter? getting rid of chipmunks will not get rid of any rodent problem in the future if you have points of egress.

as for your pool, can i ask you if your chipmunks are drowning or defecating in your pool? if so, that would be a problem, and for that i have no solutions..

however, i never found chipmunks to do much major damage to shrubs. yes they dig around them if you put bonemeal or fishmeal down, but imho they are simply not big enough to dig deep enough to kill even my littlest of perennials. i would say you have some other critter problem, maybe a groundhog..

and i have to admit, i am one of those neighbors who let their chipmunks live... because smoke bombing (which i let DH do one year) only served to create a vacuum resulting in a population explosion and new holes in the lawn the next year... and because they haven't done much to my property, holes in the lawn being the worst affliction which i am willing to tolerate..

I have been able to co-exist and garden in harmony with the chipmunks in the rural area we live in Connecticut. But it seems over the last 2 years or so the chipmunks have taken advantage of any prior agreement we had ... when they started to tear up planters on a second floor bedroom deck that changfed things, but last week when i found one digging in a potted plant in our screened in porch that was the last straw! They were no longer cute, they were vermin over running our property.
Checked out this site (as well as many others) for a solution. And the bucket (with the sunflower seeds) has worked, even thougfh I was sceptical at first. Better yet I may have found a solution to the squirrel intrusion problem (squirrels leaning into the bucket and scoping out seeds) ... instead of placing a board up to the bucket that serves as a diving board for the chipmunks, cover the bucket with a board that has a hole (approx 3"x3") just big enough for a chipmunk but too small for a squirrel. It worked for me! Bagged a chipmunk in first day. And there's no way a squirrel could get to the seeds.

And here I always heard that moles were the scourge of suburbia.