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!