Pure made up bullshit. I've noticed my whole life that groundhogs do not hibernate. Several of them little fuckers are always digging out the foundation to one side of the bridge to my house. I've always seen them all winter, digging through my garden, and eating up my carrots, turnips, lettuces and other winter crops. The little slime balls can all just take a dirtnap.
They also tear up my fences by dragging their fat asses over my wooden fences... 7 feet... breaking boards sometimes and definitely pulling some out of the nails.
It was the New Jersey groundhog that died before the big day. I guess he knew that there would be 6 more weeks of winter.I am sorry. It was fake news. Phil is alive.
No, Punxsutawney Phil did not die a day before Groundhog Day
His New Jersey counterpart, Milltown Mel, did "recently cross the rainbow bridge," according to his handlers.www.kiiitv.com
It was the New Jersey groundhog that died before the big day. I guess he knew that there would be 6 more weeks of winter.
The Groundhog Day movie was actually filmed in Woodstock, IL. One year, we told our kids schools, that we, the Winton family, are going to Woodstock to take part in the Groundhog Day event. My daughter had to write a paper about the holiday. This is a once in a lifetime event. (If you do it once, you don't have to do it again.) We still try to watch the movie every year.
Try a # 5 Bridger spring trap upside down over the opening to the critter's burrow. They get curious eventually and poke their head out to look around.They are actually some strong and agile critters. I put out a live trap the first year I lived here, because they are dropping my bridge into the creek. The thing was made of 5 gauge welded steel wire, and it just tore its way out like it was made of string.