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To: Ish who wrote (50962)	5/23/2000 4:40:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I know that you are probably going to tell me that this is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG.... And that... Farmers and groundhogs are natural born enemies... And that... I should be lying out on the lawn with my 22, or maybe stuffing a length of rubber hose running from the exhaust system of my truck down into a groundhog hole... But heck... I think those little dudes are cute... especially the baby ones. Just been working in my vegetable garden for most of the afternoon... and there is a groundhog burrow about... hmmm... perhaps 50 feet away. There are 3 baby groundhogs living in the burrow, and they have been out sunning themselves and having little playfights all afternoon... They remind me of oversized gerbils... doing that thing where they grab each others little hands and then wrestle around... like Kangaroo Fights... They are making me LAFF... yep... Funny about the difference in the 3 of them though... When I have to walk by the burrow, one of them is really nervous and dives down the entrance as soon as it sees me start to walk towards the nearby barn. Then there is one that sticks around for a little while...a bit curious... to watch for a few seconds before it dives for cover. But the third one is either brave... or perhaps just a big dummy... because he/she sits there watching me until I'm about a dozen feet away, and then it casually hops down the hole.... I can see this becoming a type of field biologist's project... a cultural study in groundhog-ism.... And yes, I know what you're thinking... and I already thought of that... Another month or two and those baby groundhogs will be big groundhogs... and they'll be wandering over into the vegetable garden to knaw at a zucchini or eat some spinach... But that's OK... I always plant extra for the birds, deer, raccoons and groundhogs... and they're pretty good about sharing... they usually leave enough for us... yeppers...