Problem

A random chipmunk has entered my house and it's spazzing around like a b!tch.
I need to catch it and put it out but I have no idea how to do it.

I need genuine help, and suggestions please! A HUMANE suggestions. I don't want to poison it, smash it with something, get it stuck on glue trap or any other such thing.

Thank you.

Call animal control. You don't want to get close to a small, frightened animal.

If you can't do that you could try putting a trashcan or laundry basket and moving it toward a door.

I'm trying to cover it with a towel, but its spazing out. I opened the door but it won't go there, it's just moving from one small space to another....

I don't know if I should just leave it there until tomorrow or something and then call animal control...

Can I just say that this may be the most adorable problem ever?

It is a very cute little animal, I must say. It's fluffy!

do u have anything to feed it?

I'm sorry, it's hard to be serious about this. I think if i had a chipmunk in my house i'd probably just want to ask it to live in my attic and give it a hug.

Originally posted by BruceSkywalker
do u have anything to feed it?

Originally posted by Darth Jello
I'm sorry, it's hard to be serious about this. I think if i had a chipmunk in my house i'd probably just want to ask it to live in my attic and give it a hug.

That is so cute!

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I don't even know what they eat. And I'm scared because I have a cat and it cannot be in the house, or near the house till I get it out.
Will cat attack it? Anyone know?

I don't think your cat will.. but to be on the safe side can u put your cat outside or have your cat sleep on the floor in your romm

The first thing you should do is put on long sleeves, gloves, and long pants should be tucked into your shoes. It's a wild mammal so no matter how cute it is, it could still give you something via a bite or scratch. Your best bet for a lure would probably be a pine cone smothered in peanut butter with nuts, especially pecans and almonds stuck into the peanut butter. try to stay calm and don't freak the chipmunk out.

I checked the old OSI manual and it says chipmunks don't like the smell of dried blood and are also sensitive to capsaisin. So if you have any raw meat or pepper sauce, i would try that around doors leading to inside the house and around things they could eat. also, keep your doors and windows open.

Thanks for that Darth Jello!
I'll get on it.

My doors and windows are still open - and there is a huge ****ing moth/night butterfly thing that came in, its hairy and disgusting, and MASSIVE.

Oh my god, its so repulsive, and I don't know where it flew now! I cannot chase the chipmunk while there is that beast flying about...

This is the worst night ever...

Name is Alvin and have it as a pet. Chipmunks need good homes too.

don't chase the chipmunk.it'll just panic and run further into the house, just make it know that your home is not a comfortable place and that the exits are open. Chipmunks are scared of tall things and movement but they are not specifically scared by the scent or presence of humans so if some how you get it calm and distracted you might be able to pick it up. Do it while wearing canvass gloves and always pick it up from the bottom with your hand wrapped around it's shoulders. NEVER BY THE SCRUFF OF ITS NECK. That's what the thing says.

i wish i could make this night much better for you..

can u kill the moth first and then attend to the chipmunk?

Originally posted by KidRock
Name is Alvin and have it as a pet. Chipmunks need good homes too.

I was gonna suggest that 😄

Originally posted by Darth Jello
don't chase the chipmunk.it'll just panic and run further into the house, just make it know that your home is not a comfortable place and that the exits are open. Chipmunks are scared of tall things and movement but they are not specifically scared by the scent or presence of humans so if some how you get it calm and distracted you might be able to pick it up. Do it while wearing canvass gloves and always pick it up from the bottom with your hand wrapped around it's shoulders. NEVER BY THE SCRUFF OF ITS NECK. That's what the thing says.

Dude, the chipmunk is somewhere in a small space between the oven and the wall. I am not getting anywhere near there, because every time it jumps, I jump with it.

Now please, I need the help with this moth, because I keep screaming cos it keeps flying about and its disturbing all other wild life I am trying to get rid of.

I never had this problem in England.

Kill it. Swat it with a newspaper or a heavy magazine but try not to squish it so it's not messy and gross. Once it's in your home, it's migration pattern is typically so disturbed that it'll starve before it reaches its destination and you save it from starving to death. Is there a window in your kitchen?

Oh, and England or not, animals are everywhere and you're in their home too so sometimes stuff like this happens

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Dude, the chipmunk is somewhere in a small space between the oven and the wall. I am not getting anywhere near there, because every time it jumps, I jump with it.

Now please, I need the help with this moth, because I keep screaming cos it keeps flying about and its disturbing all other wild life I am trying to get rid of.

I never had this problem in England.

what part of England where you in?

Originally posted by Darth Jello
Kill it. Swat it with a newspaper or a heavy magazine but try not to squish it so it's not messy and gross. Once it's in your home, it's migration pattern is typically so disturbed that it'll starve before it reaches its destination and you save it from starving to death. Is there a window in your kitchen?

Oh, and England or not, animals are everywhere and you're in their home too so sometimes stuff like this happens

Look at the size of this thing. I am not getting anywhere near it.
It's just on the floor trying to fly making a buzzing noise...

Use that sticky paper, fer realz.

It works GREAT!

Once it gets stuck, then you can kill it and throw it away or put it in the blender.

HOORAY!

You could leave a nut trail from that little space it is hiding in, out into the yard, then slam the door shut when it gets outside. You have to sing, "Hit the Road, Jack" as you do it, though, or it doesn't count.

You should probably kill it now, why you can still find it, because it could get stuck somewhere, die, and smell up your place. I am serious.

I don't see a way to do this, humanely. It's not a human...unless you've anthropomorphized it in your head already. Let me guess, you named it too?

Your cat, depending on how much of a mouser he or she is, may very well kill it. If the Chipmunk is large, and your cat is smallish, the cat will eat the head off, but leave the rest. I am dead serious. (No pun intended. K, it was intended...I'm not gonna lie.)

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
its hairy and disgusting, and MASSIVE.

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