"HeyBub" wrote:
DerbyDad03 wrote:

My cat likes to hunt the chipmunks around our house. One time I saw
him hovering over one in the front yard so I chased her away. The
chipmunk was lying on its back and not moving so I reached down to
pick it up and toss it in the woods.

As soon as I got within a couple of inches, the critter flipped over
and ran off under a bush. It had been playing dead so that my cat
wouldn't play with it.

Scared the sh*t out of me when it jumped up!

I'd have jumped too! Goddamn chipmunks are vicious little devils!

If you ever visit Mt Rushmore, the second most impressive thing you'll
notice are hundreds of signs, all saying "Don't touch the chipmunks. They
bite!"

A couple of decades ago, when my son was about 4, we went camping up in the
Thousand Island region between NY and Canada. As we were moving things from
the truck into the cabin, we were keeping half an eye on my son.

Well, the next thing I heard was him saying "Look, Daddy, Look!" I turned
to see him holding a chipmunk snugly between his 2 little hands. How he
managed to catch it, i have no idea.

I told him to him drop it, which he did, but not quite fast enough. He
released his hands slowly, giving the chipmunk time to nip him before he
had fully let go.

We drove back to the ranger station who told us that the odds of a chipmunk
having rabies was extreme minimal and that they thought that he would be
fine. They told us how to get to the hospital (an hour away) leaving it up
to us whether to go or not. We chose not to and nothing bad came from it.

Coincidentally, we did end up at that hospital many years later when my
other son broke his finger while trying to stop a log from rolling into a
car in the same camping area.