That sounds a lot like what my coworker does with chipmunks. Except, it isn't a box, it's a bucket. And it isn't a forever home, it's 8" of water.

• Accept that you will bring pain and suffering and death to an innocent being
• Lay out glue trap
• Wait
• Obtain rat stuck to glue (wear gloves)
• Sincerely apologize to rat
• Double bag in plastic, tie knot
• Lay on floor
• Massive foot stomps ensuring complete flatness
• Deposit in neighbor's trashcan
• Bask in dreary bitterness

• Accept that you will bring pain and suffering and death to an innocent being
• Lay out glue trap
• Wait
• Obtain rat stuck to glue (wear gloves)
• Sincerely apologize to rat
• Double bag in plastic, tie knot
• Lay on floor
• Massive foot stomps ensuring complete flatness
• Deposit in neighbor's trashcan
• Bask in dreary bitterness

Why would he kill chipmunks? I used to live somewhere where they were all over the place, but they only ever made annoying noises and taunted my dog. I never had one even try to come into my house.

Mice don't go inside for food, the go in for shelter and then find food. Not having food won't make them leave. As long as you have a warm place to stay, they are going to stick around unless you help them leave.

They will chew the living fuck out of your house. You have to get them out of your house. Killing them is just one way.

Mice don't live very long even under the best of conditions.

Even better if you know someone who has ferrets.

He had a ton of them, they'd chew at stuff around his house and ruin his landscaping. I think he said he got 18 in one day before.

Get help

It's ok. Across the whole insect, plant, animal kingdom there are cases where cohabitation is not tolerated and often leads to one party's death. This is how things sometimes work.

How about

Either I had weird chipmunks or other people do, because even bees did more damage to my house than chipmunks.

Get a bucket or box and place a plank reaching into it. Glue an almond or something with peanut Butter to the end. Oil the plank at the point of no return.

You might have to cover the the edges so they cant jump out.

Thats how I caught 7 mice in a day that refused to get into conventional traps for days.

Can confirm, I just about killed a college roommate once because he wouldn't do his dishes and snored like a banshee.

If you get snaptraps, get the cheap wood ones because all those other ones are trash. The wood ones have a hell of a good spring on them and they're dead RFN. And they're more sensitive than any of the plastic ones I've used.

I live in the country, running a mouse trapline is a necessity. Once you've had the dirty little fuckers set up house where you don't notice them for a few months, you will have precisely zero sympathy for their coexistence in your dwelling. I once had to clean a nest out of a breakerbox with several crisped corpses and every breaker covered in piss and shit.

There's a reason we domesticated cats.

I live in the country

When I lived in the country, I bought rat poison in bulk from the farm supply store. That was much cheaper than buying the little containers at Walmart. Warfarin has an antidote in case you have a stupid pet. (My dog never ate any but I was worried that he would.)

Luckily we don't have rats in my neck of the woods. Though, we have tree rats (red squirrels), and I deal with them with a .22. They can cause a lot of damage as well.

Maybe I should have said rodenticide, because it's not specific to rats (or to rodents, for that matter).

Chipmunks gnawed through our basement casement windows and wrecked holy hell on our house. They can’t easily be trapped. I got them out by borrowing ferrets from one friend and the last one out by borrowing another friend’s house cat.