I love chipmunks, I think they're so cute, but they sure can do some damage. They ate the entire bottom of our garage door, the rubber part, and they chewed through all the underground wiring. We had to have our entire front yard dug up and have the wiring replaced. I rescued one from the mouth of a neighborhood cat, called my vet and asked him what to feed it. I bottle fed him a special formula, even took him to soccer games w/me. I carried him in my track suit pocket and he'd poke his head out but never tried to run away. Eventually, I had to set him free b/c it wasn't fair to keep him indoors. Plus I didn't want him to do to my furniture what your outdoor squirrel did to your patio furniture.

My son feeds a squirrel outside his apt. and he's named it Chubby. When we were in England, he got a squirrel to come up to him and he hand fed him. The squirrel put his paw right on my son's hand and onlookers were so surprised to see that. They tried it and the squirrel wouldn't come to them. So we now call the boy the Squirrel Whisperer.