We've had some problems with chipmunks this year. A few weeks ago my mom's car was doing something weird and when we looked under the hood we discovered that a chipmunk has been eating things - spark plug wires and the padding that insulates the hood from the engine. So we have set a couple of traps and have taken several chippies to the forest a couple of kms from our house. We have named most of them - Chip and Dale have made visits to our place, as have Alvin, Simon and Theodore. My parents have been a little frustrated with the infestation but I keep reminding them that this was their home first.
This morning my dad noticed a chipmunk running out from under my mom's car and decided to check to make sure nothing was wrong. The car hadn't gone anywhere yesterday so the chipmunks had some extra time to do their work. They shredded the padding again and this time they left us a little present.
Alvin had babies in the car! The padding was used along with grass to make a nest-type thing and there were baby chipmunks in the nest under the hood of the car.
They have now been moved, nest and all, to the srubs in front of our house. Hopefully Alvin can find his(?) babies now but we couldn't leave them in the car. They might have eaten more wires and that would be bad.
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