Hi there!  If you’ve been visiting our blog from the beginning, you may have seen posts on my chipmunks troop before. If you’ve missed them and want more background, you may want to go back to here, and also here. I have hand-tamed / trained 3 of them, and am working on my fourth, named ‘Sergeant’.   The one in these photos that Mama took, is ‘Chipmouse‘, which was the easiest one to train.

My family and friends call me ‘The Chipmunk Whisperer‘.  Sometimes they try to whisper back!!  This REALLY tickles! Look at her little paw on my ear!  My Dad said she was thinking, “I wonder if I can put some seeds in here?”.

I’ve spent extra time with them in the last month or so, knowing I’ll see them a lot less over the winter. I don’t believe that they truly hibernate, but they are like the squirrels.  They stay in their burrows and sleep a LOT, only waking to eat a little bit from the food the keep right next to them. Or under them. They have been known to come out some in winter on milder days to collect nuts or berries or whatever they can find.

In this photo below, she is searching for some of her favorite treats that I might have dropped.  Some of the things I’ve fed her that she loves to eat are dried corn, sunflower seeds, slivered almonds, and she has taken grapes cut into quarters when we didn’t have any of the other things in stock.

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Just look at how she looks up at me!  I think she loves me. Sometimes she gives me little wet kisses.

I don’t have a photo of it, but I actually taught Chipmouse how to shake paws. : )  I put my finger out by her paw, and she puts her paw on top of my finger.  Then I push up, and she pushes down, and I push up, and she pushes down. It’s really fun!I think in the photo below she wanted to do a double paw shake.

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I also love to twirl her tail.

I really love my chipmunks.  I’m glad that God allowed them to trust me.

I’ve spent a lot of time with them, so I think they will probably remember me in the springtime.  Especially ‘Chipmouse’, because we’ve spent countless hours together.

I know where her burrow is, which is on our property, so when I really miss her, I can at least whisper down to her and tell her. Notice how chipmunk holes are so nice and round? That’s how you know it’s not a snake burrow!

Well I hope you enjoyed my post.  I should have another coming up.  I won’t tell you what it’s about so it’s a surprise.  : )   Also, today we got a very early, and very, very special Christmas present! We are all over the moon and were bouncing off the walls with happiness when we opened it!  (We weren’t being impatient. We were told to open it right away.)   I hope Mama blogs about it, but she wants photos.  Of course!!

See you later!