The woodchuck is almost a complete vegetarian, eating leaves, flowers and soft stems of various grasses, of field crops such as clover and alfalfa, and of many kinds of wild herbs. Certain garden crops like peas, beans and corn are favorites. Chucks occasionally climb trees to obtain apples and pawpaws which they relish.
They have sharp little rodent teeth that constantly grow throughout their lives.
NiMH got chewed up pretty badly on one leg.
(He got the last laugh, he flushed the dumb woodchuck into the path of a car.)