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I have one that lives in my backyard. I see him occasionally in my raised beds nearest to my house. I never see any damage that he may be doing so maybe he is just digging for my garden scraps I put in there?

If he got inside the house, Chewie would probably eat him.

Our church is surrounded by forest preserve. The interior has horizontal natural cedar board and batten. One Sunday morning the pastor was in the middle of her sermon when we spied a chipmunk strolling along one of the battens behind her. Slowly the congregation started to all see, point, whisper, finally the pastor turned around and saw. Rolled her eyes, and someone opened the rarely-used side door in that corner to let it out.

My parents' house is surrounded by acreage. We occasionally find chipmunks in the deep window wells. We put a long stick down the well, and eventually the little cuties figure it out. Unfortunately, we have also found a skeleton.

At our last house, we parked one of our trucks outside. They got into the AC. We turned the AC on and nesting material blew ALL over the cab! We live trapped 42!

I have several that love my flower beds. They are a nuisance, but I will take them over the

darn deer that eat my flowers right to the ground. The main problem I have had with

a "Chippy" is one getting in my garage. Had a devil of a time getting it out long enough

to be able to close the door. He left and went down the drive and I hurried and closed

the door before he returned with his suitcase and kids! Always hold my breath when

I have my garage door open for any length of time...but hopefully, I scared him off for

good. Still see him from time to time, but usually in my neighbor's yard. LOL

Here's one I saw at Lake Tahoe:

I've never seen them in Los Angeles or in Coachella Valley.

I would not like seeing one stuck in a window, and I would probably try to open the screen to let it escape. I would not want it inside the house at all.

Chipmunks burrowned under our back door stoop and we’ve had to replace it in each house. So we catch them in a humane trap, then drive it to the park, or the bike path, etc, a mile or more away (and preferably on the other side of the creek). Of course every now and then we we will report from the bike path that we spotted a little chipmunk with a hobo stick and kerchief sack over his shoulder holding his little thumb out to hitch a ride.

We don't have chippies at our house but we have a few at the lake cabin. They seem to like drinking out of the hummingbird feeders so we have had to invent ways to keep them off them.

At my house we have lots of skinks scurrying around and they sometimes get into the basement. They are pretty easy to catch down there because it stays pretty cool and they move in slow motion being cold blooded. We used to have a cat that liked to 'play' with them. Most of them would be missing their tails after the play dates. Now they are usually still sporting their tails.

While probably not really rare here they are seldom seen. A couple of years ago I actually saw one in my yard and it made me happy for days.

I cannot imagine having 42 in one area because the ones that I have seen chase the others away.

I have a bunch and they help themselves to my suet and birdseed. While I'd prefer the birds to get the food ,I won't chase squirrels and chippies.

Maifleur

We stayed in a vacation rental near Estes Park a few years back and the chippies were everywhere. Some species may be territorial but they sure weren't out there. I do think the one we have at the lake cabin likes to be alone as we only seen one.

CousCous wanted to bring her little friend inside, but we didn't let her. Eventually she dropped him and he scampered off.

"Eventually she dropped him and he scampered off."

This happens many times at my place. The cat(s) will proudly approach with a chipmunk in their mouth, I scream "Drop it!". They do (most of the time) and the chipmunk springs to life and runs off. They play dead. Sometimes they are only stunned, I keep an eye on them until I can see that they can reasonably creep off into the high weeds.

One time a cat was carrying one across the yard, and the chipmunk whipped around and bit the cat on the mouth or something. Cat yowled and dropped it, chipmunk one, cat zero.

Rather than play doorman, I made the mistake of propping the screen door open so the cats could come and go as they wished. Well, Misty brought a chippy inside and it escaped her....so it was get the cat out, find the chippy, trap the chippy, let chippy go by stone wall to avoid the cat. It all worked rather well...I managed to find her and get her in a shoe box to take outside. Now, I play doorman.

We see them all the time here. They are so cute. Never bother a thing. I love seeing them.

I’ve got tons here, last year was the worst. I see digging but I haven’t noticed any real damage. I get a kick out of their chirping when they’re mad or scared. Kinda cute except when I pull a bloated one out of my pool skimmer. I didn’t realize until recently that they’re related to squirrels.

Yes, my old cat would bring live chippies into the house along with the occasional dead one. She kept the population under control. i see them scampering around my house but idont see any damage. They are cute.

We had quite a few resident chipmunks the first couple of years we were in this house. Pretty entertaining, and the worst trouble I found them causing were sun flower seeds from someones feeder planted in my pots. Pots not big enough support sunflowers, the chipmunks sense of scale was way off.

Not nearly as many around now. I really don't use anything but organic products outside, although we did make some landscaping changes they may not have liked. There is a pair of owls living some place close by too, I almost hate to think they are the reason.

We always have some chipmunks (AKA ground squirrels) around our house.

I've never found one in our single window well, but often find toads in there. I lift them out using the small-bulb fitting on the light bulb pole for ceiling lights. I lower it over one until he crawls into the cage, then I lift him out and take him to the creek east of our house to shake him out.

No "What if' here. I live with them skittering across the patio every few minutes. When they hide in the down spouts I tip them up and out they slide. Neighbors are known to be sure their's empty into a bucket of water with a lid!!

I also wanted to mention Lars, that I thought I was going to watch a video of a chipmunk stealing Doritos. I was kind of disappointed. : )

Lars, that was hilarious, thanks for the good laugh.

A video of me chasing a chipmunk away from my Doritos would have been pretty good. I was with my niece at that time, on her first visit to California when she was 18. She thought the chipmunk was cute, but I did not appreciate having my Doritos stolen. Usually only seagulls do that - I did not know that there were beach chipmunks.

I really dislike the squirrels we have in L.A., but I have a feeling that the coyotes roaming our neighborhood have cut down on their population, and I am thankful to the coyotes for that, but I don't want them getting into my back yard.

I was sitting inside my gazebo and reading a book. I had coffee and a blueberry muffin. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw something come toward me, a chipmunk. I didn't move so chippy advanced and stopped within ten inches of my chair. I continued to drink coffee and eat my muffin, he looked up at me. I gave him a teeny bit of the muffin. I'm not reading the book but watching the show below me. He packed it into his cheek pouch and looked up again. This continued until he looked like a cartoon character. He sat by me for another few minutes and then started leaving, turned his head, and stared at me, I waved and he scooted.

LOL That video sure is a lot of drama over one innocent little chipmunk!

The only chipmunks that I know of in my neck of the woods are of the cartoon variety. We had them (real ones) on the farm where I grew up, I always thought they were so cute and wanted to catch one for a pet. My parents nixed that idea.

Rusty

My main experience with chipmunks was when canoeing in the US-Canada Boundary Waters. Sit down for lunch on land there and several chipmunks would come out to investigate. They had no fear of people and would just walk on to my outstretched legs, pause for a moment, look around, and move along. It was as though I were just part of the landscape.

We seem to have enough fox and coyotes around to keep their population in check.

I remember the story my FIL told. He was gardening and he saw their (then older) cat park herself just outside of a chipmunk hole in the ground. Eventually she fell asleep. Then he saw the chippy peak up from the hole, see the cat, see it was sleeping and went on about its merry way....

While we don't have chipmunks in Calgary, we have a ton of squirrels. When I lived in BC we had both and a lot of them mainly because we lived on 2 acres 10 miles outside of the city. We didn't do anything when they were around but watch them play. After all: we were in their backyard.

More than 20 years ago, our young daughter stepped off our deck and stepped directly on a chipmunk and killed it. Very traumatic for her. She cried and cried.

Oh Elizabeth, that's so sad! When I was a young teen, we had chipmunks living in our backyard. One summer I "tamed" a chipmunk to sit on my hand to take a peanut.