Brings back memories of my hamster. We wound bring him to the park and watch him hop around and go zoom zoom, and he'd pick his own grass and eat it just like this groundhog here. He lived an almost full life, but got sick after grabbing and eating a big housefly... again, just like this. Little dummy
At least they are not greedy like those racoons! My bud found a small one on the road but didnt make it after a few days, just too small but very cute.
It takes a long time; they are most impressionable while they are young, but it still takes a while before they start to come out for you. They are prey, so they are very skittish by nature, their first instinct is to run when they encounter a human, and they often make a loud shriek to warn others of danger. Eventually they start to come out of their hiding place and eat the food I had left, and they can see me in the distance. Slowly but surely, I get closer while this is happening, and eventually they begin to trust you a bit, or at least be willing to take a chance on you, they still spook easily. They do come up to me now if I have food but often will grab it and run, or if they see I don't have anything they just avoid me altogether, so I guess that I'm a sugar daddy for now.
I don’t think we have groundhogs in Texas. I’ve never seen a real one here, but this one in the video sure is cute. Kind of like a cross between a possum and a raccoon just smaller😂
Yep! That's what animals do, eat what's available. And your point is..... I know. Give the critters your credit card to go shop at the grocery store. You are a kind sir.
That’s definitely a baby groundhog. I know because I live in a neighborhood with LOTS of groundhogs, and I’ve got two baby groundhogs living under my back door steps right now. The only reason they don’t look like they have much of a tail when they’re older, is because the adults get so fat, but the tails stay in proportion to what they were when they were babies.
This is 100% a groundhog, I have a whole family of them that I feed and try to keep track of. Groundhogs and prairie dogs are related, they are also in the same scientific family as squirrels.
It takes some time! They are skittish by nature, so it takes a long time for them to warm up to being around me, but eventually they figure out I'm the grub guy and that I'm probably not a threat. The one in this video was born a few months prior, they spend most of their time running away from me. I'm still working on getting the 2024 babies to eat from my hand, so far it has only happened once, I uploaded that video last week: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2wxkXWLuA2k.html
@@froggypwnsI had no idea I’d wake up this morning, pour my coffee and learn that groundhog babies are skiddish. Still working on why people put locks on trash dumpsters though.
@@froggypwnsthere is an old saying used by pervs that says catch them while they are young (I'm not saying that is anything but reprehensible where humans are concerned) but it does work with animals. I have been hand feeding badgers in my garden for years and this year I tried stroking one of the cubs when she first came with mum and now she seems to like a "deep fur massage"¡😉
@@guybeingaguy in my neighborhood it was because the raccoons and bears keep trying to get in them. When I was a teen I worked at a fast food restaurant. It was eleven at night and I went to take out the food trash. I went to the dumpster, or where it was supposed to be. I saw a black bear walking off pushing the whole dumpster!! I dropped that bag and ran back inside! Our restaurant was near some woods in south jersey so we used to get lots of critters. I was used to the raccoons and the possums. But I don’t mess with bears. Several times the raccoons came right up to the drive thru, climbed up the wall and begged at the window. get the
Woodchuck. We called our neighborhood woodchuck..."Woody." Everytime when I was out and about with the children, if we saw a woodchuck I would say..."there's Woody!" They caught on abot the age of six that there were lots of Woodys in the world.
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Of course what baby animal isn’t cute and cuddly? The only way that baby groundhog is going to live a long life is if it maintains a healthy fear of humans. Please don’t feed baby animals
For a human, sure. We don't digest certain vegetable matter, but guess what? Not all creatures are like humans! I know, blows your mind. Now go pick up a book.
Correct. Nor is this one. Your point is, what exactly? Now go look up "sociopath," and try to understand that some people have emotions. I know, I know, it's hard to believe.
