If you are feeding these stray cats they may not be interested in the other little critters. 8-) If you are not feeding them but they can get access to any other pets food this could also discourage hunting the burrowing varmets. bsk ----------------------------- Rob Loach wrote: > The cat thing sounds like a good idea, but we have probably about a half > dozen stray cats that hang around our house, with seemingly no effect on > the chipmunks. :-/ > > Rob