Took wife, daughter, and grandbaby to a Patriarchal Celebration of Traditional Maternal roles brunch.
Drove oldest son back to St Cloud.
Caught a groundhog.
Set it free, elsewhere.
Tired now. Baby isn’t.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Here in Massachusetts it’s illegal to transport wildlife (without, I assume, some appropriate license to do so). We frequently broke that law after trapping
woodchuckgroundhog in our Hav-a-Hart, and sometimes we even broke (what I imagine to be) a similar Federal law forbidding transporting wildlife across state lines (we were living in a part of MA separated from the rest of MA by a bit of Rhode Island, at least if you want to travel by road, and so small that the groundhog would have had no trouble finding its way back to our garden). Occasionally I’d find a skunk in the trap instead of a groundhog. I’d very carefully lift the gate and then wait, usually an hour or more, until the skunk decided to leave the nice nest it had made for itself overnight and amble out of the trap.Busy Day.
Took St Cloud elsewhere, caught tired.
Set oldest son free, wife daughter drove
back to groundhog.
Maternal brunch a grandbaby celebration.
Baby Universe.
Grandbaby needs a beard to hide those crumbs (like grandpa and uncle). : )
Relocating wildlife is not conducive to their continuing good health. Not recommended.
Groundhogs can be kinda funny critters, I miss seeing them around.
Although, they can cause a lot of problems when they are living too close to humans/human structures.
Maybe relocating it isn’t great, but it’s better than just up and killing it.
@3 She’s being taught to store food for the hard winter ahead. Very sensible.
How did you catch it in the first place ,or why did you catch it ?
The groundhog has been burrowing under our house for a few days, and also tearing up what Mary is hoping to turn into a small garden. We used a live trap to relocate it before the situation gets worse.
Wait, what, set it free?#!!%?
Oh, the groundhog, not the baby.
Carry on, then.
There are no images showing both the groundhog and the baby… it is entirely possibly there is a groundzebrababyspiderfishhog roaming the wilds of Morris… Approach with caution! Or simply Run Away!! Run Away!!!
But there is a camera trap, operated by First Dog in the Moon, We thought we knew what was clomping about in our backyard at night but we did not! (cartoon)…
The mildly deranged penguin points out the @11 camera trap is operated by First Dog on the Moon. Neither they nor the clomping about monster have never gotten inside the MOON, which has quite extensive arrangements to contain the cheeses.
Scrolling I got the pic of your son and the baby with the title “Caught a groundhog” and thought “That’s not a nice thing to say about your son or your grandchild.”
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Neither is “letting them burrow until the house collapses on their head”, but what do I know?
Baby beards for everyone!
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Wow PZ! Iliana resembles you quite a lot! I’m sure that she will grow up to be much prettier, though.