[OC] Can you spy with your little eye the groundhog what forgot he wasn't a squirrel?

a closer look

poor lil dude looks like he's got himself in a pickle

Was doing some yardwork when I felt a presence watching over me. Thankfully, before I began treating myself for suspected heat stroke, I noticed this fella up in the treeline doing just that. I'm not sure if this is typical behavior for groundhogs, though their common name would indicate not, but I suspect he may have been trying to avoid my dog. At any rate, for an oversized rodent, I thought he was pretty cute! I checked back an hour or so later and he had scampered off elsewhere (I suspect into a tunnel under my garage that I've been putting off dealing with).

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WizardArtsPropaganda@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 34d (2 replies)

Treehog

redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 34d (1 reply)

Skypig

gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org · 2 pts · 33d

albbi@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 34d

Woodchuck got chucked into the woods.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 34d

Fun fact: the Danish word for groundhog translates back to "ground squirrel", so in Denmark he'd only be half wrong 😄

And also, very much adorable 😍

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 34d

I dub him ‘Groberto.’ My he live in internet meme lore for the rest of time.

Yosmonkol@piefed.social · 2 pts · 34d

Must not be a lot of ground level new shoots for it to go dining up in a shrub like that, you can see the twig it was monching on pretty clearly in the second pic.