We country ’munks are blessed with an abundance of natural
food, the ability to have gardens, and of course plenty of bird feeders to
raid. Unfortunately, the chipmunks who live in suburban areas are not so blessed.
They have to earn wages and buy their food at the seedmart. Many of them are out
of work and forced to decide between paying the rent on their burrows and
putting food on the table for their families. Chippy Jr.’s scout troop decided
they wanted do something about this. They organized a “seed drive” to collect
food for the foodbank. Being a volunteer leader with the troop, I joined in. We
went door to door collecting seed donations. We were really surprised how
generous the human beings were. We discovered that a number of our human
neighbors even have a door knocker at chipmunk height!
Here is the first house. Let’s get started.
Wow, a chipmunk height door knocker.
Unfortunately no one seems to be home … wait a second,
I hear the door opening!
Our first donation!
Word of our food collection drive travels faster than
a chipmunk can run.
The next house we came to a donation was already on the
brick patio.
I could use bigger cheek pouches.
Why do humans insist upon having so many
steps to climb? This is exhausting.
But, it was well worth the climb.
People’s generosity is heart warming.
I think I am going need some help with this donation.
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