Hey pita, I’ve killed hundreds of ground hogs and collected the bounty for them in my younger years. (After my young female cousin fell into a groundhog hole and was seriously injured). They are a pox on the land and a danger to humans.
This is the sort of thing that weakens a somewhat justifiable cause.
Makes me think many are stupid at PETA. I grew up on a beautiful 98 rolling acre farm in S indiana with cows , chickens , dogs ….and yes groundhogs. No Deer, believe it or not they had been hunted out of the area. I clearly remember seeing my first deer in the mid-1970s it was a big buck being chased cross a field by a pack of semi-feral dogs our neighbor had. I was transfixed. Anyway I digress.
Dad had a tractor accident that an old timer neighbor saw the aftermath of and said it was proof god existed. Dad had a ditch collapse on him when the tractor ran over a groundhog burrow and it flipped upside down with him and my toddler 1st cousin on it, miraculously neither was even scratched. After that he had a hatred bordering on obsession for ground hogs. I’ve seen the quiet animals shot, stabbed, hung, trapped, torn up by dogs and he even once poured an entire 5 gallon can of gasoline down a burrow and lit a match to it. Flames shot up out of the ground in places I didn’t even know had holes.
Then there are the foxes, coyotes, hawks that others mentioned. A wild groundhog lives a short terrifying life often ending in severe pain.
Then you have Punxsutawney Phil, lives a Life of rodent luxury. Yet PETA compIains about it—-what a bunch of idiots.
This is the sort of thing that weakens a somewhat justifiable cause.
Makes me think many are stupid at PETA. I grew up on a beautiful 98 acre rolling farm in S indiana with cows , chickens , dogs ….and yes groundhogs. No Deer, believe it or not they had been hunted out of the area. I clearly remember seeing my first deer in the mid-1970s it was a big buck being chased cross a field by a pack of semi-feral dogs or neighbor had. I was transfixed. Anyway I digress.
Dad had a tractor accident that an old timer neighbor say the aftermath of and said it was proof god existed. Dad had a ditch collapse on him when the tractor ran over a groundhog burrow and it flipped upside down with him and my toddler 1st cousin on it, miracously neither was even scratched. After that he had a hatred bordering on obsession for ground hogs. I’ve seen the quiet animals shot, stabbed, hung, trapped, torn up by dogs and he even once poured an entire 5 gallon can of gs down a burrow and lit a match to it. Flames shot upmost of the ground on places I didn’t even know had holes.
Then there are the foxes, coyotes, hawks that others mentioned. A wild groundhog lives a short terrifying life often ending in severe pain.
Then you have