While they’re cute and all, chipmunks are destroying the root systems of some well-established shrubs in my yard. Does anyone have any tested and proven methods for repelling them from certain areas? I don’t want to poison or trap the little buggers, but I’d like them to stop killing things. I also don’t want to make any of the other wildlife (mainly the neighborhood owls, hawks, and other birds) or my dog sick.
I have live trapped and relocated them before when nothing else worked
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Have you tried reasoning with them?
I sprinkle ground or flaked dried hot peppers on and around my plants.
This works great, but I suggest using powdered (like how cyanne pepper usually comes) instead of flakes. Flakes encourage birds to give them a taste and I cant imagine its good for them.
