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\"Chipmunk.jpg\"<\/span>Our chipmunks? We\u2019ve got them everywhere. I wonder at times if we don\u2019t have the ideal conditions for a chipmunk breeding ground: a porch under which they can burrow, birds who knock gobs of bird seed onto the ground, and a garage in which there is a bucket of bird seed which these little critters have discovered \u2014 and out of which they sometimes jump and startle us when we walk into the garage.<\/p>\n

The other day I counted six under our bird feeder \u2014 and they fill their mouths and go put the seeds in their pantry and return to do the same all over again \u2014 all day long! <\/p>\n

Well, what to do with them? Any advice?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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