Use a have-a-hart trap with a small trail of blueberries leading to a bigger pile of blueberries inside. Then later simply release it somewhere away from your home.

Catch a black snake and bring it into your house to hunt it down :-p

What, and break up the Chipmunk's family?

PS"Chipmunks can carry diseases. The most common diseases chipmunks are most commonly known to spread include plague, salmonella, and hantavirus. Plague is a bacterial infection that attacks the immune system. You can be infected with this bacteria via the bites of fleas carried by infected rodents."

I've come home to a squirrel and they pee all over when worked up!! Bats and mice are common, drives me insane. I think we have the bats DONE but uggg. My DH would have his bb gun locked and loaded. Nature is great when it stays in it's lane...

Years ago, we had a squirrel come in a back patio door that we had left ajar for our dog to go in and out. The squirel eventually ended up in the office next to the front door. We stuffed towels along the bottom of the other entrance to that room to ensure that there was only one way out. We created a pathway from the main office door to the front door with boxes and other items in an attempt to steer him out of the office and out the front door, with no access to other parts of the house. Then we just inched him around the office to the door, through the defined path, and out the front door. My tip - have someone manning the front door to shut it as soon as you get it out the door. Ours turned around and ran back in the first time.

Thank you for all the tips. We tried the door idea yesterday, no luck. Today we bought a love trap, hope this will work.

Years ago, FRED the cat, brother of ETHEL the cat, with his buddy a tiny Fieldmouse.

Tortilla chips with peanut butter in a Havahart live trap. Ace Hardware sells the live traps.

Chpmunks love sunflower seeds and can smell them readily. Can your borrow the appropriate sized Have a heart trap? Do you know how he got in? You could try leaving the door open. Put some talc or cornflour dustic on the floor by the door so that yo can tell if he left. (everone else to the upstairs, cllar or4 away.)

yes, we have the live trap and he has been eating bird seed. We found bird seed on our chairs so we know what he likes. We are not sure how he came into the house, nor through which door. Unfortunately, we have more than 2 doors as well as 2 floors/stories

@ petalique, good idea re talc powder (:

If you can locate him, block off that room. Borrow plywood. Oh, but they climb.

They can chew into and through things. You want him out, he wants to be out.

The sooner, the better.

Can you have family, kids pets go ff someplace? You and DH focus on getting Chips trapped or gone.

Borrow a few game cams from pals. Or indoor securigty cameras. close doors so you can confine him and figure out where he is, thenkeep him there until you trap him or he exits.

I once had a critterin my garage. I set up a gam gam or some security cam and then ID’d it as a mouse. Then trapped/snap killed it. Fed him to outside critters.

STOP FEEDING IT. <—- emphasis, not yelling.

If you don’t have cats, dogs pets or toddlers, but some SNAP RAT traps (plastc ones good. Bait w sunflower seed, but chips won’t go for them if he’s already stuffed w food.

You do not want a wild animal in your home, cute as it might be.

Alternatively, borrow a secure hungry cat, or someone‘s terrier or Labrador retriever. My Lab used to catch all the chippies around our gardens.

Good luck!

PS Be sure that all fireplace dampers are closed!

Thank you for trying a humane way.

A friend had a ch

ip in the house. She finally lined op a path with pillows leading to the door.

Thank you for all of your suggestions. But I’m not moving, lol, we just bought the place 2 yrs ago!

The live trap was set up with bird seed and peanut butter on chips. No evidence that chipmunk entered trap. I have not seen evidence that it is still in the house, i.e. no food stashes etc. No droppings either.

It is hard to trap him in the house, as it is open concept and open to the downstairs/basement. Basement has door opening to the garage.

However, it is in the garage. We have left garage door open and have seen it run outside. So it knows how to get out.

Our dog has tried to chase him around the garage, to no avail. but there are way too many hiding places. I will set trap in garage see how that works.

What evidence should I look for to determine if it is in the house?

Chipmunks leave acorns under the pillows of our guest house. Never seen one, never seen the droppings but have had acorns under several pillows. This year when it gets cold I am going to set a chipmunk specific live trap and see if I can catch it/them.

I was terrorized by a squirrel in my house, and my saga went on for 2 months before I finally got it using a rat trap. I went out and bought 2 live traps, one for small rodents and one for chipmunks and put peanut butter on a paper plate past the trip sensor. All I got were footprints in peanut butter all over the place. It had been in my bedroom one night, running all over every piece of furniture and under the bed until I got it into the hallway and then shoved towels under the door so it couldn't get back in. That night, it scratched at the door and ran up and down the hallway. I finally trapped it in the office, which has an old fireplace that I think it was getting in and out of. I tried the live traps again to no avail, and finally gave up and put the rat trap out. That same night, snap! It was a flying squirrel, which are apparently protected. I felt bad, and DH put foam in all areas of the chimney that it could have gotten in and out of.

Forgot to mention, it jumped on my head one night during a storm!

@sleeperblues Wow, quite a story.

This guy was just caught in the garage, relocated him way down the street. Hopefully, he wont return. Same trap was left in the house for 1 week and then moved to the garage. I assume, it was no longer in the house. Trap reset in the garage, just in case.

I don't mess around when it comes to rodents in the house. Where there is one, you can bet there are more. Yes, they do want to be in your house. It is warm, has plenty of hiding places for nests, free from predators (unless you have a cat with hunting abilities) and available food. I've learned from experience not to mess around with live traps, snap traps or running fuitlessly around the house trying to chase them out. None worked very well. I go straight for sticky traps. Never had them fail. I keep a couple at home and at camp active at all times. I haven't caught a field mouse in 6 months, due to wiping out the colony in the area, but more will certainly move in eventually.

Unfortunately, relocating a chipmunk "down the street" may not be far enough away unless it's a mile or two from your residence.

We would relocate chipmunks a mile away, and either on the other side of the train tracks or the other side of the creek.

@functionthenlook I apprciate your comments. A colleague ised sticky traps, however, she was diligent that as soon as the rodent was caught, she would put it in freezer. So it wouldnt die in a cruel fashion. She felt freezing to death was better than ongoing suffering.

Huh?

Sticky traps are hideous and very cruel.

likestonehomes, rodents die quickly in sticky traps. They try pushing away with their face and suffocate. I have never seen a rodents suffer in a sticky trap, but have seen them suffer in snap traps. The snap trap does not always break their necks.

I just don't understand people sometimes. They banned their own children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, and friends from their homes because they might be diseased, but allow diseased rodents to run free in their homes under the name of humanity. Rodents have a use for the food chain in the wild. They are free to do their thing outside, not in my house though.

Once a chipmonk fell down our dryer vent. DH disconnected the vent so the chipmonk could get out then we set a have a heart trap baited with sunflower seeds. The chipmonk refused to go into the trap, so I opened the side door and put a trail of sunflower seeds up the steps leading out the door. That worked. All of the seeds and the chipmonk were gone. Luckily another chipmonk didn't come in and follow the trail to the basement.

@functionthenlook Thank you for the info. (one learns something new, everyday. ) I just hate to see anything suffer, I despise mice and rats! All critters belong, definetly not in my house.

Did you know, there are no rats in the entire province of Alberta, Canada. https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx

@althea_gw ”uckily another chipmonk didn't come in and follow the trail to the basement” That was exactly my concern with doing this.

I don't recommend sticky traps but if you have a critter stuck on one, a bucket of water is quicker and IMO less traumatic than freezing.

Now, as to how to get critters to leave. I know this works for birds: Not only do you open a door for them to run out, but close all the blinds and curtains and make it the only patch of light. Birds in particular will fly about towards any patch of sky. Block them all off and they will head for the one remaining patch.

Someone earlier in the thread had a squirrel coming in the chimney. Doesn't it have a steel damper to close it off? If not, I sure hope you're in a tropical climate where you never run central heating because that's a huge vent for hot air to pour out of the house to be replaced by cold drafts from every possible crack and gap. If you were in a tropical climate you wouldn't have a fireplace.