Years ago I found a baby chipmunk that had gotten injured by an animal. I had already had a huge 40 square foot cage I had built, so I took care of the baby chipmunk and eventually put it in the cage.

It grew up and I had found another chipmunk that had no where to go because it was always outside and I never saw it go in a hole so I figured the hole got inhabited by another animal or it got filled in somehow. So I caught the chipmunk and kept it with the other chipmunk.

Eventually they had babies together and it was really cool to see the baby chipmunk that was injured, to be a full grown adult with babies. I ended up making another new cage because I couldn’t let the baby chipmunks go because once they are in captivity they can’t fend for themselves in the wild. I fed them all sorts of food and one of them got so fat I had to redrill the hole into the bird house that they use as a nesting box, because he couldn’t fit inside it because of his giant belly.

The chipmunks lived a long and healthy life together and all seemed to get along great. It’s amazing that one little chipmunk I caught would turn into an entire family worth of chipmunks who were very lively and always playing.

In the winter I would take plywood and nail it into the back of their cage to protect them from the snow and winds that come in from the west. I would always see their little foot prints in the snow when it was warm enough for them to come outside in the wintertime. In the spring time they would all come out and run and play and sun themselves.

They’re really easy to keep and eventually got so used to me they would run to the edge of the cage when I would walk over, as they were expecting food. All in all it was a very fun time watching the chipmunks have so much fun.