A Chipmunk with Good Taste

I had a dog who liked to try to eat rocks when I went out looking for Fairburn Agates.  But, have you ever known a chipmunk to be a rock lover?

I had been cutting small Laguna agates in half on my 6″ trim saw one day, and had absent-mindedly left the stones out on the patio overnight.  They were in a small bag since I was trying to be more organized…only I wasn’t organized enough to actually put the bag of agates away.

The next morning, I got up and found that my two bags of rocks had been broken into.  One was in the same place, with a hole ripped into the middle, while the other one had been ripped open, and had been considered the better bag I guess, since someone…or something… had dragged it halfway into his hole underneath the deck.  For whatever reason, the chipmunk left it abandoned at the entrance of his  hole.

I am only glad he DID leave it there!  If he had managed to drag it in all the way, I would have lost several nice agates, and would have never known what had happened to them!