Baby Chipmunks!!

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Carol Rose

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Sep 13, 2014
Indiana, USA
Do you have chipmunks across the pond? I should know this but I don't. LOL! :)

These little critters live in our backyard. It's hard to see in the pics, but I spotted five babies this morning, crawling out of their little home via a hole in the ground. It amazes me they dig these tunnels and make homes underground. No wonder Jesse and Monty (our two cats) have been going nuts lately next to the windows that face the back patio. :)

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Those are adorable!! :D We have mostly gray and brownish-gray squirrels here. Much larger than the chipmunks, though. And they leave each other alone, which is good.

No, the kitties are strictly indoor cats. :) No snacks for them other than the treats we give them. LOL!
 
As it's the w/e... nuts to writing....look at this daddy's girl. Jessicat, 6. She has only a first floor balcony, but she needed a new home, and I believe she caught a moth last summer. It was a warm evening and we had the doors open, and a moth fluttered in, and she leaped straight up and...
then there was cat-style Lip smacking.
Daddy is the No 1 human. My role is to dispense treats, sometimes catnip so she can get stoned, most crucially at 5 or 7 in the morning. We have a cat's drug den situation here.
 

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Does he have a mate, I wonder? You could never offend me with any animal pic, @Susan. Never. Not even herons, and I don't hate peacocks, though they are velociraptors and there are unlucky superstitions attached to them, and a British Palestinian family friend, once urged me to get rid of a lovely cloissonnee peacock pendant, said she regretted giving it to my mother, who had given it to me.
I'd shake my bum feathers too, if I was him.
 
We have no chipmunks here (our only native land mammals are bats), but the hedgehog has been introduced. I'm afraid I trap the little beggers out of the garden (they can decimate a bed of cucumbers in no time--take one bite out of each fruit, and they're deadly to ground-nesting birds), but I will admit that they are pretty cute.
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OOOO!!! They are so adorable! I haven't seen any around the yard, but we do have them here. :)
 
Dormice, water voles and hedgehogs are some of the most endearing creatures we have in the UK. Sadly all of them are declining in numbers. Prairie dogs (or gophers) were one of my favourites when I lived in Alberta.
 
Dormice, water voles and hedgehogs are some of the most endearing creatures we have in the UK. Sadly all of them are declining in numbers. Prairie dogs (or gophers) were one of my favourites when I lived in Alberta.
I keep thinking we need to ship some of our pests back to the UK. We've got a few here that are declining in their native habitats, but thrive here and cause all sorts of trouble. Maybe I can start live-trapping those hedgehogs instead of killing them. What's your address, @David Weller? ;)
 
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