Garden critter delemia

Ok, so I have discovered chipmunks are eating my strawberries. On Friday night, there were 7 big beautiful ripe red strawberries. When I checked the garden on Saturday morning, 5 were gone. Now I have taken precautions and have a fence around the garden and netting over the strawberries, but what ever ate them scaled the fence and pulled the strawberries up through the netting (I know this because there were little pieces of strawberries stuck to the netting).
This year we have seen many more bunnies and chipmunks because our two hawks from last year nested somplace else this spring. We think they ate all of these critters last year, because we had none of these problems.
The delemia comes in because I have been told of a solution and I am a little quesy over it. I was told that if we take a large pan of water and place peanuts in it, the chipmunks will go for the peanuts and leave the garden alone. I was fine with this plan when I thought they would eat the peanuts and get full. However it turns out that the chipmunks go for the peanuts and drown. It is supposed to work very well. Now I don't want the chipmunks eating my garden or my flowers, but that just seems a little inhuman to me.
So what do my loyal blog readers think?