Posted on 04/15/2020 5:11:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We've seen so many great videos over the past month or so, but we dare say... this may be the best. You remember New York's famous "Pizza Rat"? Well, move over... it's time to meet the "Pizza Groundhog!"
He's just munching away completely unfazed by Action News in Philadelphia viewer Kristin Chalela Bagnell or her two dogs.
Kristin captured the little, or not so little guy, outside her home in Philadelphia's Brewerytown section.
Kristin tells our sister station Action News the groundhog sat there for more than an hour, just casually munching away on that piece of pizza with no worries. All while dogs, Maggie and Moses, looked on.
We know he's definitely a Philly groundhog. He's got the attitude and he knows a good piece of pizza pie when he gets his hands on it.
Varmint Cong.
They don’t last log around my place.
I either shoot them or let the dogs do the work.
They tend to do a job on the garden plants
The last great act of defiance.
Who threw away a perfectly good slice of pizza?!
I love how his little paws are holding his slice.
open the window and see how long he stands there. The animal is outside looking into glass and probably only sees his own reflection.
My pet groundhog loved pizza, too. And my Mom’s lasagna.
In addition to waiting for the pizza guy to hand him a slice on the way to the house, whenever mom pulled a lasagna out of the oven he’d position himself at the glass front door and peer in until she pulled it out and cooled off a piece for him. She’d open the door and he’d scramble over the threshold and through the house to the kitchen where he’d stand at attention waiting for her to set it down.
All animals are Italian but not all Italians are animals.
Try planting New England Asters around your property- they like those, and dandelions, more than your garden.
He was free to come and go as he pleased, and though I thought he would demolish my veggie garden he didn’t take much interest in it.
He did remove just about every dandelion he could find from our yard and all the neighbor’s yards. I had a big bed of asters that he’d nibble all the time - enough he could barely keep up with, so his nibbling made them thicker and in the fall I got more blooms because of it. But he left my corn, sweet peppers, strawberries, beans, cucumbers, zuchini and tomatoes alone so I didn’t have to fence them. I did give him all the vegetable scraps and once in a while an ear of sweet corn, which he would eat one row at a time holding it horizontally. He also had his own bar of soap at the entrance to his hole. He would shave a little soap off of it with his teeth and run it through his fur, especially his little fluffy tail. I’m real glad Biden wasn’t around to try to sniff it.
He’d also play tug of war if you were brave enough to let him hook his teeth over your finger. And he was unbelievably strong, he could pull you if there was enough traction for his feet.
He did like to swipe things and carry them underground.
Very cool.
If the Pizza Groundog sees its own reflection, it means 6 more weeks of quarantine.
A family of ground hogs ate my sister’s entire garden except for the zucchini. Apparently they don’t care for it.
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