We used to have a very large garter snake that made her home in the basement window window-well right outside our back door. I named her Sammie. We never had a problem with chipmunks while she was around. She disappeared a couple of years ago and the chipmunks have started overrunning the place! We can't even open our back door anymore without checking to make sure one isn't sitting on the doorstep for fear that they may run into the house. We have to mothball the heck out of all the motorcycles and lawn equipment to keep them from nesting in them during the winter. And occasionally we live with the stink of death around the back door after one has found it's way up behind the siding and apparently dies in there.
I miss Sammie.
Given a choice though, I'll take the chipmunks over a rattler any day.
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