Re: GWL groundhogs, rats and city slickers

**C* <i*@cobrahead.com>**

No one seems to be answering the really important question here, which is
of course:

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.?

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:48 AM, <frielster@aol.com> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>
>
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