Diseased Chipmunks Could Invade UK

[carla]

Britain is set for an invasion by thousands of diseased chipmunks coming from France, experts have warned.
The animals are known carriers of ticks which cause Lyme disease and can also pass on rabies.GREAT!!
Warnings about the chipmunks potentially coming to the UK were issued after thousands of them were found living in Paris.
The Siberian Chipmunks have been appearing more and more around tourist spots in the French capital following a summer of good weather.
Nature experts fear tourists will pick up the animals and put them in their bags or car boots and bring them across the Channel to Britain.
The chipmunks are also being sold for under £10 in French pet shops, despite warnings about the potential risks of keeping them.
Jean Louis Chapuis, a French researcher into the chipmunk problem, has stressed it is dangerous to sell them as pets.
"Lyme disease is a terrible condition, and the chipmunks are a major carrier. These rodents are not shy, and in fact very approachable."
The Siberian Chipmunks are thought to have spread across Belgium and France after 17 were released at an amusement park in Brussels in 1980.
An estimated 100,000 are now living in northern France.
Naturalist Guy Bruel said: "There is a particular problem in the woods around Paris, attributed mainly to people who have bought the animals as family pets and then got rid of them.
"This is just the type of behaviour which will lead to the chipmunk getting to Britain in huge numbers, possibly as early as this summer."


Diseased Chipmunks Could Invade UK - Yahoo! News UK

[Robin]

Hi Carla!
How the heck are you my friend! that is insane like you need more little disesase carrying creatures around.do they have any plans on how their going to deal with these rodents? i believe there is alot of disease carrying creatures out there just waiting to be found.
Love Ya!
Robin

[Kritters]

Hey Carls and Robinski....

Not to worry, girlfriends. Those chipmunks will be moving along from Paris to Rio very shortly. I hear they are very trendy. They're calling themselves 'Che de monk' I hear and they are very selective about whom they touch.

xoxoxo
Krittmonkster

[Katinka]

GREAT!!!

[Katinka]

[Kritters]

glad you liked it Katink! we've gotta have some laugh time, yes?
xoxoKritts

[Kritters]

OMG...now where in the heck did you find that? LOLOL xoxo

[Katinka]

They were on their way to Paris ..

....as I took a picture of them at the airport!

[Kritters]

Se la vie say the old folks... goes to show you never can tell!!! xxoo

[jonsi]

This is serious!
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Britain is set for an invasion by thousands of diseased chipmunks coming from France, experts have warned.
The animals are known carriers of ticks which cause Lyme disease and can also pass on rabies.

Warnings about the chipmunks potentially coming to the UK were issued after thousands of them were found living in Paris.

"Lyme disease is a terrible condition, and the chipmunks are a major carrier. These rodents are not shy, and in fact very approachable."

An estimated 100,000 are now living in northern France.

Naturalist Guy Bruel said: "There is a particular problem in the woods around Paris, attributed mainly to people who have bought the animals as family pets and then got rid of them.

"This is just the type of behaviour which will lead to the chipmunk getting to Britain in huge numbers, possibly as early as this summer."

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~jonsi