Molbyman

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My son is interested in keeping a pair of chipmunks.
We have made a large area at the back of a shed but now need a couple of young chipmunks to go in!

Anyone here breed them for sale? Needs to be nr.Worcestershire if possible.

Thanks..

mj

...does your neighbour mind you turning your shed into a cage for electric ferrets, complete with the accompany odour?

You have seen these things I take it? You think they get exited in Pets R' Us , drop them in a shed in the back garden, add a few local cats and foxes for entertainment and enjoy. When winter comes, you can watch an empty cage as the poor little critters nearly freeze to death in their old wooden shoe box/hutch.

I'm no Rolf Harris, but I would say chipmunks are not built for our winter. They might survive if you let them burrow in the rockery over summer.

J4CKO

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Are they the kind of Fast Forward Squirells on speed you see in pet shops ?

grabber

a mate of mine kept some for a couple of years their fine for the winter but they breed farster than rabbits, and they are very good at escaping, their not the freindliest critter either

mj

...absoluteley, beige bodywork with black Dodge Viper/Lame Saxo stripes.

You have been warned.

Tiggs

so you cant pet them..they arent attractive to view...the point is what exactly?

how old is your son? if hes under 12 tell him he cant have them (he'll bore anyway and you'll end up dealing with them) if hes over 12 buy him a football and send him out to play.....if hes over 30 then god help you.

mj

Rats. ( good pets for kids )

take him to a farm and steer him towards chickens as pets. Real eggs, and if you give it enough antibiotics it will never get salmonella - bonus.

dpb

I had one for a couple o years built largish cage in my room -kept us awake all night running round at squirrel like pace . He became well tame - but cage was still not really big enough so let him round the room and once or twice he escaped -around and out the back garden as is their wont .managed to retreive him. Im ashamed to say i didnt feed him right ,mixed up teenage years, had him for a couple o years..that or a virus -which i think their prone to . ended him. Id say, for their sake ,not the best pet - their squirrels after all

J4CKO

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Are they as wholly evil as a garden Squirell ?

dpb

chipmunks are n.american ...and grey squirrel would prob make 2 of the average 'monk ...chippy- your lean racing machine as happy on ground as up a tree