Re: GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

**f*@aol.com**

While I can't quite agree with the poster who called groundhogs (a.k.a. woodchucks) "cute" -- ever seen one really close-up? -- I will admit that their lumpy running style is amusing. And I DO try to get along with them. 
Unlike some folks I know, I don't try to run over them, or go out of my way to bother those that aren't bothering me. I'd have no problem coexisting with my neighborhood whistle pigs were it not for their pernicious habit of trying to get into my basement by digging large burrows right next to the foundation of my house, which rests on a steep slope and really doesn't need such undermining. So when a new specimen turns up, out comes the trap and the .22. I'd share a tomato or two, but not the house.

Subject: Re: [GWL] GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

Rodney King died last Sunday....and I do wonder, in this less than perfect 
orld, in a world where our houses now infringe on so much territory that 
sed to be wild habitat for skunks, coons, possums, and even those dreaded 
roundhogs, in our often exceptional but still less than perfect gardens, 
ouldn't we somehow (as a goal?) just all try to get along?

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