Baby Chipmunks!!

[Carol Rose]

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.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

No, we've got squirrels; or squizzels as my younger daughter likes to call them. The native reds, now endangered, and the greys.
Charming chipmunks. Will the kitties, um, well, you know......?

 

[Carol Rose]

Those are adorable!! 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!

 

[Katie-Ellen]

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.

 

[Carol Rose]

What a gorgeous kitty cat!!!

I've tried catnip on those boys and it doesn't affect them at all. Weird. LOL!

 

[Susan]

My contribution to the wildlife pics - with apologies for offending peacock-hater @Katie-Ellen Hazeldine

Took this yesterday during a walk in the park. This lad was intent on showing off, swaying in majestic circles and shaking his surprisingly fluffy bum feathers. (The peacocks get to roam free, btw.)

 

[Katie-Ellen]

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.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

What a gorgeous kitty cat!!!

I've tried catnip on those boys and it doesn't affect them at all. Weird. LOL!

No, it doesn't affect every cat the same way, and some don't like it. But for this one it's......Nar-cat-ics.

 

[Susan]

He has a mate and babies! Haven’t seen the little ones, though they couldn’t be as cute as @Carol Rose’s chipmunks.

 

[KateESal]

No, it doesn't affect every cat the same way, and some don't like it. But for this one it's......Nar-cat-ics.

Where's the GROAN emoticon when you need it.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

@KateESal telling me off again for terrible puns. Sigh. Well, I looked for a poo, or a boo, or a heap of rubbish emoticon, but they have not been so considerate as to provide one. Will this do instead to make amends?

 

[KateESal]

Hahaha!
Please don't stop with the puns @Katie-Ellen Hazeldine . Sometimes they're so bad they're good.
And they always make me

 

[Katie-Ellen]

......groannnnn. Me too, but....

Our friend @Marc Joan (excellent writer of eerie short stories. I recommend The Speckled God) has it all worked out. He plants a pun then says 'I'll get my coat'.

 

[Marc Joan]

He plants a pun then says 'I'll get my coat'.

And nobody ever tries to stop me. Funny that.
Humph.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

You've been missed, and your puns too, of course. Have some cake

 

[Marc Joan]

Good old KTLN. Hope you are well.

 

[AliG]

Loving your chipmunks. Please post me a pair.

 

[Katie-Ellen]

Chipmunk envy. It's a thing. Well, it is now.

@Marc Joan One is tickety boo, old bean.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

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.

 

[Carol Rose]

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.

 

[David Weller]

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.

 

[Robinne Weiss]

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?

 

[David Weller]

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?

Sounds like a perfect solution to me.