My dog finally caught her first chipmunk a few minutes ago. I looked away and when I looked back to see what she was doing she had whipped her head around a bit and dropped what was in her mouth.
So there it was on its side with one rear leg just twitching. That slowed to a stop after about a minute. It seemed dead. I moved away to get the dog back on the leash (it's a yard behind my apartment with fence, no roads, no cars). Anyway, as I moved back its little eye opened and it watched me but still lay there. I took the dog across the yard and tried to get it to focus on the ball but she just wanted to return to the chipmunk. I stopped look at it from a short distance, it was breathing and had rolled over to its stomach but it was stretched out and still prone in the grass.
Do chipmunks play dead? Could the little guy be okay? I don't know what to do. Trying not to cry.
