Chipmunks are some of the cutest animals around as long as you are not trying to keep them out of your garden! I have fun feeding the little guys and seeing how far they can stretch out those adorable cheeks.

Chipmunks will eat a wide variety of foods but they have their favorites and one of them is pretty strange!  There are also a few foods that they tend to avoid as well as some foods that you should never feed them.

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Have you ever been confused between a chipmunk and a squirrel? I know I have. This is especially in the case of certain types of ground squirrels that have a stripes that are similar to chipmunks. However, there are some notable differences between ground squirrels and chipmunks.

Let’s take a look at what these are:

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Feeding a baby chipmunk, especially a newborn, is a delicate, time consuming and complicated job.  In fact, caring for a newborn requires much more than simply feeding it and actually requires you to act like a Mother chipmunk.  You are going to need to keep the animal warm and calm, help it poop and monitor its stool to make sure that you are not overfeeding.

This article will show you everything you need to know to take care of a baby chipmunk.

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Have you ever stumbled across a chipmunk’s burrow system? Given how extensive these things can be, you probably assumed that chipmunks follow some kind of joint family structure where they live together in their burrows. At least that’s what I thought until a quick search on chipmunks and their living habits told me otherwise.

Some of the results of my search were ambiguous at best, but here’s what I found out when I dug into the question, “How many chipmunks live in a burrow?”

Research indicates that, except for when a mother is raising her babies, only one chipmunk lives in a burrow.

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When I was growing up in Kentucky I always had a ton of fun watching the chipmunks grabbing bird seed that had spilled from the feeders.  These little guys are the smallest member of the squirrel family and share a lot of behaviors with their larger cousins, the grey and red squirrels.

Tree squirrels do not hibernate to get through the winter and instead rely upon stored food to get through the winter.  However, most chipmunks perform a modified form of hibernation which made me wonder if they go through the trouble of storing up winter food caches.

So, the question of the day is, “Do chipmunks bury nuts?”

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Chipmunks are cute, furry and completely harmless. Or at least they are until you pose a threat to them. In that case, a chipmunk will bite you hard and flee off to its burrow as quick as its little paws take it.  Read on to find out why do chipmunks bite and what health risks their act of aggression means for you.

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Have you got a chipmunk running loose in your house?  Personally, I think the little guys are cute as heck but I wouldn’t want them running around in my home unsupervised.  The last thing I want is for them to start digging burrows in my sofa!

Chipmunks may occasionally find their way into homes and you should know how to catch a chipmunk in your house without making it look like there was a tornado.  So, what should you do if there is a stray chipmunk hiding in your house?

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