Chipmunk fight!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

I have a bird feeder that lately has become very popular with chipmunks. They stuff their little cheek pouches and run off - they're really cute so I don't mind. But lately they're competing not only with birds, whom they sometimes chase away, but with each other. Today I was watching one stuffing his pouches when another chipmunk climbed up the pole - and the first chipmunk actually pounced on and tackled him, and the two of them fell to the ground in a clinch. I didn't think those little guys had it in them.

[underpants]

1. At our old house one night I'm looking out the kitchen window

and I see this red ball thing just bouncing along left to right like the old sing along tv show.
What the....
It was a chipmunk with a cherry to,ago from our garden just taking it back to his hole. He always stopped right before he went into the hole.

[abqtommy]

2. Keep in mind that any rodent/chipmunk can spead Hantavirus and Plague

in the saliva, urine and feces even if dry. They are cute though...