when I go out because one neighbor who's the police chief's buddy likes to call in noise complaints, so I have to take that measure to foil his false complaints about 'persistent barking'. This is partly payback because the old coot wants a girlfriend and I'm unwilling. No, I'd never kill a chipmunk if I could help it, but HE would in a heartbeat. When my chows were alive, after he first moved in next door I caught him leaning over the fence, waving his arms and swearing to rile them up. Then of course he'd run inside and call in a noise complaint. Which led to a stirring town council meeting when I registered a furious public response which pretty much stopped that little game. This is a tiny backwater town where everybody knows everything that happens five minutes later, and the police chief knows the loss of a single vote could unseat him. So I've found my best protection against the worst abuses is to make a scene at those meetings, and then people tend to stop it. I don't care what they say about me, but the rest of them really hate being outted in public. It punctures that false screen of piety and superiority they like to wear. They'll commit all sorts of devilry but the MAJOR SIN is publicly exposing them.
Would chipmunks learn your schedule? Quite possibly. They're rodents after all, and rodents tend to be very smart. But they have to live too, so I leave most critters alone or at least try not to harm them. I actually had more 'visitors' before the JRT came along. She's far more aggressive than the beagle/pom. Too large for AKC registration, too. They naturally have a wide height range, being so closely related to fox terriers. Since they were bred to run foxes to ground and kill them in their dens, they're not the least bit afraid of anything that moves.
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