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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:46:13 PM EDT
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I too enjoy killing problematic rodents. However, I never thought of chipmunks falling into that category...plus womens love em.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:46:33 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:47:13 PM EDT
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Are they causing any kind of problems for you?
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:48:25 PM EDT
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Get a cat.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:49:21 PM EDT
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I too enjoy killing problematic rodents. However, I never thought of chipmunks falling into that category...plus womens love em. They destroy my tomatoes. I live trap them (purchased at Lowes). Usually they are trapped in early morning so they are dead (AL summer) by the time I get home. If one were to survive, he will overdose on water. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:50:08 PM EDT
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We had a quite a few chipmunks in my backyard until a preggo stray showed up....then formerly preggo stray and the 1 surviving kitten stuck around and ate the whole lot of them. Haven't seen a chipmunk in several months.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:50:26 PM EDT
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That's how Richard Gere started out. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:50:38 PM EDT
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If you're not relocating them and they are causing damage:
Fill a 5 gallon bucket halfway with water and throw in enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. Provide a ramp for chip and dale, and they'll fall right in like lemmings. Or just put seeds in a havahart and take them a good distance before releasing. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:51:26 PM EDT
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I use a plain old snap trap for rats and bait it with peanut butter.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:52:24 PM EDT
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5gal bucket half full water. Enough bird seed poured in to disguise death trap. 2x4 ramp leading to death bird seed buffet.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:52:36 PM EDT
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peanut butter on a pinecone in the live trap
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:52:49 PM EDT
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If you're not relocating them and they are causing damage: Fill a 5 gallon bucket halfway with water and throw in enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. Provide a ramp for chip and dale, and they'll fall right in like lemmings. Or just put seeds in a havahart and take them a good distance before releasing. The 5-gallon bucket didn't work for me. The havahart worked like a charm and I caught one 4 days in a row. Don't release them, kill them. They are just cute rats. Shoot them if you can or just drop the whole cage in water. ETA: My bait is sunflower seeds mixed with peanut butter. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:56:15 PM EDT
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The 5-gallon bucket didn't work for me. The havahart worked like a charm and I caught one 4 days in a row. Don't release them, kill them. They are just cute rats. Shoot them if you can or just drop the whole cage in water. ETA: My bait is sunflower seeds mixed with peanut butter. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you're not relocating them and they are causing damage: Fill a 5 gallon bucket halfway with water and throw in enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. Provide a ramp for chip and dale, and they'll fall right in like lemmings. Or just put seeds in a havahart and take them a good distance before releasing. The 5-gallon bucket didn't work for me. The havahart worked like a charm and I caught one 4 days in a row. Don't release them, kill them. They are just cute rats. Shoot them if you can or just drop the whole cage in water. ETA: My bait is sunflower seeds mixed with peanut butter. I caught 22 over the course of 3 days in two buckets. I watched 3 follow one another into the squinnie pool. Now I just pop the few I see with a pellet gun. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 12:57:07 PM EDT
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peanut butter on a pinecone in the live trap This. Chippies are pretty "meh" when it comes to damage, feed them something else and they'll leave your tomatoes alone. When I was a kid, I would tame them by tossing bread to them and over time they would hop up on my knee and take it from my hands. They're pretty neat little animals. Fucking red wooly tree rats (squirrels) on the other hand, are a scourge fit only for eradication with extreme prejudice. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:00:24 PM EDT
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22? Pellet gun? Mountain lion? Ball python? Cobras? Honey badgers?
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:02:30 PM EDT
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22? Pellet gun? Mountain lion? Ball python? Cobras? Honey badgers? Honey badgers and cobras do not coexist. You can have one, you can not have the other. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:03:49 PM EDT
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Honey roasted peanuts worked great for me. Put some of that in a hav-a-hart small rodent trap and away you go. It works great. I captured multiple around my house, relocated them across multiple physical barriers, and plugged their holes. They have not come back.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:05:38 PM EDT
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I caught 22 over the course of 3 days in two buckets. I watched 3 follow one another into the squinnie pool. Now I just pop the few I see with a pellet gun. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you're not relocating them and they are causing damage: Fill a 5 gallon bucket halfway with water and throw in enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. Provide a ramp for chip and dale, and they'll fall right in like lemmings. Or just put seeds in a havahart and take them a good distance before releasing. The 5-gallon bucket didn't work for me. The havahart worked like a charm and I caught one 4 days in a row. Don't release them, kill them. They are just cute rats. Shoot them if you can or just drop the whole cage in water. ETA: My bait is sunflower seeds mixed with peanut butter. I caught 22 over the course of 3 days in two buckets. I watched 3 follow one another into the squinnie pool. Now I just pop the few I see with a pellet gun. Nice! If it works that is by far the superior method. Once mine trips in early morning, others have all day to raid the garden. Wonder why they didn't like mine... |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:06:14 PM EDT
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What's wrong with chipmunks? I have those little ground squirrels. Fuckers dig holes everywhere and tear up the yard. Then the dog tries to dig them out and makes a bigger mess. I mow with a .22 in my lap sometimes. They let me get reasonably close while I'm on the mower. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:07:12 PM EDT
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Peanut butter stuck on a live trap.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:10:09 PM EDT
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The regular sized rat traps work well. Peanut butter on the trap pan and sprinkle bird seed on it. You can use a shoe box and cut one side out to protect it from other animals.
The rat sized glue boards also work well and can be place in front of den entrances. Chipmunks won't normally eat poison so trapping them is easier. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:10:24 PM EDT
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Sticky traps. You can get them off with olive oil for disposal, without olive oil and the bones pop
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:11:15 PM EDT
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What's wrong with chipmunks? I have those little ground squirrels. Fuckers dig holes everywhere and tear up the yard. Then the dog tries to dig them out and makes a bigger mess. I mow with a .22 in my lap sometimes. They let me get reasonably close while I'm on the mower. you can go fishing down their holes with a big fish hook lol |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:16:40 PM EDT
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I buy cheep/bulk bubble gum at SAMs and us it as poison. They get their digestive system clogged up and die. Safe for cats and dogs.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:20:14 PM EDT
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What's wrong with shooting them ?
This seems like over-thinking the problem. I guess if you arn't going to do that, suspend a safe on a rope above a pile of bird seed. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:24:44 PM EDT
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This is the answer to your problems.
Kill em all Bait with peanut butter and you will slaughter them. It is what I use in my garden. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:26:47 PM EDT
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What's wrong with shooting them ? This seems like over-thinking the problem. I guess if you arn't going to do that, suspend a safe on a rope above a pile of bird seed. Some of us live in neighborhoods. It's not safe for me to shoot them. ETA: Not to mention that you've got to be watching in order to shoot them. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:28:15 PM EDT
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This is the answer to your problems. Kill em all Bait with peanut butter and you will slaughter them. It is what I use in my garden. This is what I use, they work very nicely. Killed about 15 this year. Screw it to a piece of 2x4 so the ones that get a leg caught can't drag the trap away. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:28:43 PM EDT
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Bait them, kill them, and destroy them. If they get into your crawl space or into an out building, they will chew and destroy most wiring.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:31:44 PM EDT
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Good thing the op doesnt have crabs...
With that in mind, I kinda wish there was a STD that was named "chipmunks". Dont sleep with Suzy, you will get chipmunks. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:35:28 PM EDT
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Don't waste time with a live trap. You can kill several in a day with almost no work. Take a couple of 5-gallon buckets and set them against trees. Fill with 6" of water. Float a layer of cheap bird feeder black oil sunflower seeds on top of the water, just thick enough so that you can't see the water. The little bastards climb the tree, jump in for the seeds, and quickly drown. Will kill rats and mice, too. Squirrels will escape, but 12" of water in the bottom of a steel garbage can gets them just as well (and will also work on chipmunks.) |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:38:39 PM EDT
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This is what I use, they work very nicely. Killed about 15 this year. Screw it to a piece of 2x4 so the ones that get a leg caught can't drag the trap away. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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This is the answer to your problems. Kill em all Bait with peanut butter and you will slaughter them. It is what I use in my garden. This is what I use, they work very nicely. Killed about 15 this year. Screw it to a piece of 2x4 so the ones that get a leg caught can't drag the trap away. I killed over 30 of the little fuckers last year but have only had a couple this year. One of my traps did disappear though. I don't know if a grey squirrel got his head in it and ran off or if a bird, cat or coon found an easy meal and carried the whole thing off. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:45:01 PM EDT
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Nice! If it works that is by far the superior method. Once mine trips in early morning, others have all day to raid the garden. Wonder why they didn't like mine... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If you're not relocating them and they are causing damage: Fill a 5 gallon bucket halfway with water and throw in enough sunflower seeds to cover the water. Provide a ramp for chip and dale, and they'll fall right in like lemmings. Or just put seeds in a havahart and take them a good distance before releasing. The 5-gallon bucket didn't work for me. The havahart worked like a charm and I caught one 4 days in a row. Don't release them, kill them. They are just cute rats. Shoot them if you can or just drop the whole cage in water. ETA: My bait is sunflower seeds mixed with peanut butter. I caught 22 over the course of 3 days in two buckets. I watched 3 follow one another into the squinnie pool. Now I just pop the few I see with a pellet gun. Nice! If it works that is by far the superior method. Once mine trips in early morning, others have all day to raid the garden. Wonder why they didn't like mine... Works good don't it? |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:46:49 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:47:39 PM EDT
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Peanut butter stuck on a live trap. That's what I use took care of 4 chippers this weekend. Shits were burrowing under my sidewalks and concrete porch. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:48:57 PM EDT
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Trapping time. What is the bait of choice for chipmunks? My drive way is 300' long turning in there were 9 of those little suckers in the drive way. I cannot use poison because of the dogs. I will live trap and get rid of them latter. Smoke bombs in the holes will also be used. I have been having great success using wild strawberries as bait in a few of these: 
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:50:42 PM EDT
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I use these with great success. In-shell sunflower seeds work great for me. Just make sure the trap is covered/hidden. If it is out in the open, the probably won't touch it...
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This is the answer to your problems. Kill em all Bait with peanut butter and you will slaughter them. It is what I use in my garden. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:51:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/29/2015 1:53:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistorySeems excessive for chipmunks? ETA: should have checked the URL. 
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Posted: 6/29/2015 2:01:23 PM EDT
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My wife thought they were cute until their numbers increased to the point that her large flower garden is being decimated by their holes and consequent digging everywhere. Coupled with their taste for some of her flowers I've got a request for mass extermination. Shoot, trap, or drown, that is the question.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 2:10:51 PM EDT
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My wife thought they were cute until their numbers increased to the point that her large flower garden is being decimated by their holes and consequent digging everywhere. Coupled with their taste for some of her flowers I've got a request for mass extermination. Shoot, trap, or drown, that is the question. Shoot and drown. Get both. Don't shoot the bucket. 
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Posted: 6/29/2015 3:38:11 PM EDT
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They will be killed after trapping. The Wife says leave the babies they are cute. Not going to happen.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 3:40:29 PM EDT
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Cracked/crushed pecans-shells and all. Death on chipmunks, squirrels, rats and coons. They cannot resist the cracked pecans. Grind some in your palm to almost dust and sprinkle around the trap. toss a few tiny pieces at front of trap and into it then a small pile past the trip lever/plate.
Rats and, to a lesser extent chipmunks are neophobic and avoid shiny new things showing up in their world. May take a few days to get them started entering the trap. Coons and squirrels are just stupid, opportunistic foragers. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 3:41:28 PM EDT
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This is the answer to your problems. Kill em all Bait with peanut butter and you will slaughter them. It is what I use in my garden. I tried those traps (smaller size for field mice) never worked well. I think among the 4 I deployed only one ever caught a mouse. This Pic/Ortho same same and this Victor brand one work about the same. I do like the way the Victor brand works by the mouse nosing up the trigger. It means the head has to be in position for a quick kill. With the other you get leg traps and the whole shebang crawls off, or they try to chew up the plastic bail. Interestingly enough I think the mice have recently learned that pressure plate (Pic/Ortho) type is safer to approach from through the bail. I have caught several in the last few weeks with bail coming down on the midsection of the rat and the nose pointing outboard just over the pressure plate. I also bought three of these Victor electric mouse trap with very poor results on field mice. I think field mice are too big for the openings. They have caught quite a few very young ones. When it gets the young ones, it seems to get several at a time. I've counted 6 in the trap at one time. Killing off the mice are a serious business for me. A guy was killed by the Hanta virus about 7 miles from me as the crow flies just last year. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 3:57:54 PM EDT
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I too enjoy killing problematic rodents. However, I never thought of chipmunks falling into that category...plus womens love em. #1 cause of house/car fire is faulty wiring. #1 cause of faulty wiring? Kill them for the womenz. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 5:39:14 PM EDT
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We had a crap ton of squirrels in our yard earlier in the year, every time I walked outside I saw 4-5 dashing around back up in the trees.
Haven't seen any in months. My wife did see a large Eastern Diamondback on our front porch recently. So there is that. |
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Posted: 6/29/2015 5:45:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 6/29/2015 5:47:20 PM EDT
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Use to trap them in others yards when I was a kid and built a pen for them on our property. Use to love watching them run around in it. They well find a way out, but won't leave. I use to use peanut butter on a cracker, it's like crack for them.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 5:48:36 PM EDT
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They are a blast to watch running all over the place.
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Posted: 6/29/2015 7:03:34 PM EDT
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We had a Red Fox move into the neighborhood. Saturday I saw him cruise through the yard with a grey squirrel in his mouth, this afternoon, a chipmunk.
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