I know they can be a pain in the ass, but they're just so damned cute! Especially the red ones.

My best friend for the first 3 years of my life was a chipmunk who lived in our front lawn. I spent hours a day collecting acorns and dropping them down the hole (only after he'd left...I didn't want to knock him on the head), "helping" him stock his cupboards. And then one day my eldest sister was PMSing or something and quite harshly informed me that my little friend wouldn't eat the acorns I had so lovingly delivered because they "smelled like people now". I was crushed.

Oh, is the hour up already, doc? :-)