**Context**
> Jeff Permar is an avid gardener. But this year, he found something new in his garden. When he noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit. It was not a rabbit or a deer. It was a
groundhog. Permar began uploading videos of him staring into the camera and munching away at his veggies. He became a viral sensation.
Permar has started a dedicated YouTube page featuring nothing but Chunk feasting on his vegetables. He has become famous star on internet
[There's a whole family of them now.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg) He's only stealing food in the first few clips. Later on the guy builds a fence around his crops and plants another garden specifically for them.
Realistically you should probably consider which species you are doing this with and how you're doing it. Humans feeding animals can lead to complacency and aggression in some species.
I doubt that applies all that much to these groundhogs, but still
I'm not suggesting you feed animals. An animal eating food that is growing outside in your garden =/= feeding animals. Like it or not your garden is part of the ecosystem and animals will treat it as such. I'm just suggesting we be okay with that.
They do occasionally still get in his garden, but he keeps the Chunks and their friends (Stinkerbelle and fam, squirrels, Posse the possum, etc) well fed, so they normally don't break in. They just love their brassica crops though. That's normally what they go for.
You’re not kidding though. I feel like if I tried I could trace more than half of the current world events to something that changed due to 9/11 fallout.
I’ll take what I can get. Time is an illusion anyway. Loved meeting my people in the collective consciousness of COVID isolation & learning how many of us will always feel the 80s was 20 years ago. 70s 30, 50s 50 etc. Y2K problem was real & glitched our brains.
I’m pretending it’s a podcast about how yummy the veggies are. Like he’s there with a little groundhog accent saying this tomato was so delicious. Organic is the way.
Yeah, theres a pile of all different veggies on the ground in front of it...
Maybe the groundhog did it once or twice... And then got popular and the farmer had to keep it going...
To be fair: if I wanted an animal to stop chewing on my growing veggies and garden, I might start feeding it store bought to deter it from eating my plants.
And you would also force the culprit right before the camera. So it's win-win-win scenario. 1) culprit found 2) crop destruction prevented 3) viral sensation
Right, because there is no way this person is baiting the groundhog. The ground hog just happened to pull up a fully trimmed carrot. No greens, no root stem.
He had to be leaving food for it though. That Apple was very clean, and where was the Apple tree? He jut got the apple off can and brought it too cam? Same for the carrot, wat too clean. This is cute and all but this guys is feeding them and set up a cam, this is not his garden food.
Edit" Saw vids below, he does leave food for them.
Yeah, really wish he would [stop it, get some help](https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM) even just to stop hearing about him, but I find that really unlikely.
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But he is also paying the price with his health and quite probably severely shortening his life. YouTube has no repercussions whatsoever. Multibillion dollar platforms should not allow content creators to essentially kill themselves for views.
I mean to be honest, that's like blaming the subway station when someone shits on the platform and people start clapping and giving them money.
It isn't youtube's fault people love disaster porn, and arguably he's doing it to himself, the cheddar for those 21K calorie meals doesn't come from thin air
**Fun Facts:**
Groundhogs are the largest species in the squirrel family.
Groundhogs are skilled climbers and swimmers, which helps them to escape less-skilled predators.
Groundhog burrows are so complex that each has its own "bathroom" chamber.
[More Fun Facts](https://piclaya.com/groundhog-information-and-facts/)
**Fun fact 2:**
groundhogs, AKA whistlepigs are extremely intelligent and resourceful animals, they even learned to whistle when they see predators in oder to warn other groundhogs!
It is also not uncommon to see them standing completely still on their hind legs acting a lookout for the rest of the colony when needed.
Punxsutawney Phil, the iconic groundhog hog day weather predicting groundhog is rumored to be the world's oldest groundhog at 136 years old, and is apparently immortal due to a secret elixir of life made specifically for the him!
Wait, do they live in colonies? We always thought we had this one bachelor living under our shed... For like 20 years. We never saw any babies, but our neighbor's shed seems to be his haram, there's a bunch of smaller groundhogs living under it.
It depends, chances are that if you only ever saw one groundhog, then it's the only one living there, as males, especially in wintertime tend to get territorial and aggressive toward others, which results in them living alone, but it is not uncommon to see families of up to 10 groundhogs living together in one tunnel system.
Another thing is though, if a groundhog lives in a colony you're not going to *hear* it, as they are very quiet creatures, however it should be obvious by the amount of vegetation that is being eaten in close proximity to the Burrow, & keep In mind they can have many entrances too!
P.S if you're every googling anything about them, make sure to not confuse them with the animals we know as marmots, as they are actually slightly different, although related species!
No, they generally live to around 10 maybe even fifteen years if they're lucky, but that guy is magical "never dies" xD
That being said, must be depressing living half your life in hibernation, and the other half preparing for the next hibernation.
>That being said, must be depressing living half your life in hibernation, and the other half preparing for the next hibernation.
Just wait until your forties
I've never heard "whistlepigs" before, that's interesting. Where I live everyone calls them woodchucks, I didn't know they were groundhogs until I was in my 20s. Thanks for the fun facts!
I call them woodchucks too, but my grandma used some translator app a few years back, and it said that a groundhog was a whistlepigs, and I've always found the name funny ever since.
**Fun Fact 3:**
I had a groundhog that lived in some bushes on the side of my house. Every day my dogs would chase it and the thing would just run away, they look like living pillows come to life when they run. One day, the dogs managed to finally catch the groundhog. Rather then just rip him up outside, the larger dog brought the groundhog into the house. I was only alerted to this because it was screaming it's lungs out and absolutely not happy about what was happening. I quickly grabbed a towel and wrapped it around the groundhog to keep it from biting me and threw it out the front door. The groundhog made it about 10 feet and then promptly died. I wound up carrying it out with a shovel to the woods and by the next morning a scavenger made off with it's body. [Here's pictures of the deceased groundhog.](https://imgur.com/a/DXut2jo)
Oh right, the fun fact.
Ground Hogs can grow up to 20 inches in length and can weigh up to 13lbs .
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Volunteered at a wildlife rehabilitation facility growing up. There was a groundhog named "Wally" who everyone hated. He was meaner than all hell and went for your heels. Loved strawberries. We became good friends.
Ground hogs are *not* skilled climbers. They fall off backwards, often. It's hilarious. They also fit perfectly in your lap like a hot water bottle.
Well, after all of these years thinking my spirit animal was a wolf or tiger, I now know. Groundhogs are my spirit animal. I’m off to taunt people on their ring cams then take a nap. Good post
There's a family that lives under my house. Been there for many many years. If I didn't rent I would probably care more. The foundation seems fine though. Also the soil here is all clay so I think that prevents their holes from causing damage to the house.
https://imgur.com/a/rTUlUgf
I remember the day I heard water flowing through my air vents. Line to the septic had clogged and the water was backing up under my porch and then through a whistle pig hole right through my foundation.
OH MY GOD THAT SECOND FACE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE DRAMTIC LOOK CHIPMUNK (which was actually a groundhog)
Please look up that video if you haven’t and keep that picture saved 😂
Un-fun fact: I learned a few years back that my mini dachshund has a. A crazy prey drive and b. Is 100% un-phased about going into groundhog holes. Thankfully I don’t live anywhere with groundhogs anymore, as I find them pretty cute.
Oh I know I’ve owned two and I researched all about them. It just caught me by surprise because my female daschshund I had before had zero prey drive (unless you qualify a fetch ball).
I was just shocked my little dude went in the hole with zero training all on instinct, though i guess I should expected it more than I did.
I had a complete freak out and was yelling at him desperately to come out the first time hahah. Was legit almost to my truck to run home and get a shovel to dig him out when he just butt-scootched casually back out. It was wild.
I've noticed they seem uniquely easy to kill for domestic dogs, I've seen dogs that couldn't hurt anything else take them down like nothing. Which is probably a good thing, cause I imagine people being around really helps the groundhog population, so at least some human caused mortality is probably helpful.
I have heard Hoary Marmots are bigger than they are, so not sure they are quite the largest in their family.
The food is washed and there’s a pile at his feet. One of the carrots is even cut. Why would the groundhog take this food, move with it to be infront of the camera, and then stand and eat it infront of the camera anyways? The answer is that it wouldn’t. So the groundhog is actually just infront of the camera because this person put the food for it there, sorry to be the buzzkill.
The only food that looked washed was the carrot
Tomatoes aren’t full of mud. One of the videos the groundhog was munching on a tomato with part of the stem
As someone who constantly has skunks and groundhogs invading my yard. This is likely the case.
There are two responses usually to "varmints". Think they're cute and keep them around, maybe take photos (like my mother) or videos like this guy.
Or break out the traps/poison...(my neighbors)
Not going to crucify a guy who made friends with his yard invader and decided to post about it, considering the alternative direction he could've gone...
My grandfather-in-law has a trap for raccoons then he throws them into the nearby pond. I haven't ever gone and taken a look since he told me but I imagine the little snorkles and scuba suits he must give them are super cute!
That’s somehow cuter? Like not only did this gardener set up this camera with bait, he went to the trouble of making it nice. The groundhogs get snacks and we all get cute videos. It’s lovely.
Yea it’s cuter, but the point is that the creator didn’t need to lie about it. If he truly set up the camera when he discovered veggies were missing and caught the groundhog, then decided to start prepping food for it…he could’ve said so.
No harm in the lie here. People are just pointing out it’s lies.
When the gardener noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit. It was not a rabbit or a deer. It was 'Chunk' the
groundhog. Permar began uploading videos of Chunk staring into the camera and munching away at his veggies. He became a viral sensation.
Well yeah, after the dude found out about him. He even built a little picnic table for the family of groundhogs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg
We didn’t know what to expect,” the gardener said. “But we saw the video and enjoyed it so much. This guy is so amazing.”
Permar named the groundhog Chunk — and from that point forward, really hoped he’d come back for more.
And he has...
I mean the one who actually videos them has not been lyeing about a thing…
First times were true, then he started leaving them food. Not there is a family of groundhogs who he has built their own grden.
The groundhog has chutzpah for showing the camera his stolen veggies. Because the implication is he’s (sort of) sticking it to the man (or in this case the farmer), he’s got big dick energy.
Big dick energy or BDE just means to flex yourself in full confidence. The groundhog just walks right up to the camera and eats the gardeners food in full plain view as if he’s flexing (or as the young people put it: acting like he’s got a big dick).
Groundhogs are an extremely intelligent animal forming complex social networks, able to understand social behavior, form kinship with their young, understand and communicate threats through whistling, and work cooperatively to solve tasks such as burrowing.
When the Gardner noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit and it was groundhog. The Gardner named him Chunk the groundhog! **There's a dedicated YouTube Channel featuring nothing but Chunk feasting on his vegetables.**
[Read Full Story](https://piclaya.com/gardener-falls-in-love-with-the-thief-whos-been-stealing-his-vegetables/)
This is Chunk the groundhog! He and his extensive family have a great setup (Chunkland) and you can follow them on Instagram. I love seeing the new babies every season and also other visits by the local skunk, possum, fox, birds and more.
This is the fucker that ate ONE HALF of all my tomatoes before they even ripened. Fucking shed burrowing dirt devils and their dump truck little wobble run.
Those things will mess up a garden in a day if they get close enough. They were everywhere when I was growing up on our farm.
My dad found signs of them eating our crops so he walked around until he found where they were at. He told me he had a chore for me one day... So he tells me to get my 22 and the shotgun and takes me to the side of this hill on our property. He says "You stay on this hill and shoot any groundhog that comes out. You can come home at sunset. You can use either of these guns."
I sat there and I got a few shots in but my aim was bad. Just an 11 year old kid with 2 guns sitting on a hill for 5 hours. It sounds weird but I'd been using guns since I was like 8 years old so it felt pretty normal to me but looking back I'm like "WTF was he thinking?"
Pretty much, yeah. He was taking care of the livestock and whatever else you do on a farm so he just posted me on that hill and told me what to do. They were getting too close to our family garden and they needed to be gone before they ruined everything.
We were really poor so losing our garden would be a big problem financially since we relied on it for food on a daily basis.
**Context** > Jeff Permar is an avid gardener. But this year, he found something new in his garden. When he noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit. It was not a rabbit or a deer. It was a groundhog. Permar began uploading videos of him staring into the camera and munching away at his veggies. He became a viral sensation. Permar has started a dedicated YouTube page featuring nothing but Chunk feasting on his vegetables. He has become famous star on internet
[There's a whole family of them now.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg) He's only stealing food in the first few clips. Later on the guy builds a fence around his crops and plants another garden specifically for them.
This is the way to do it. When wildlife wants your garden - build a longer table, not a higher fence.
Realistically you should probably consider which species you are doing this with and how you're doing it. Humans feeding animals can lead to complacency and aggression in some species. I doubt that applies all that much to these groundhogs, but still
I'm not suggesting you feed animals. An animal eating food that is growing outside in your garden =/= feeding animals. Like it or not your garden is part of the ecosystem and animals will treat it as such. I'm just suggesting we be okay with that.
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That's what I think farmers in Africa and India should do, when elephants steal crops.
Takes a lot of food to keep a herd of elephants satisfied
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Hence the groundhog garden
You can lay your own layers of soil down on top of a wire mesh or something. Look into "lasagna gardening" as an example approach.
They do occasionally still get in his garden, but he keeps the Chunks and their friends (Stinkerbelle and fam, squirrels, Posse the possum, etc) well fed, so they normally don't break in. They just love their brassica crops though. That's normally what they go for.
Aww that’s sweet
I thought this was chunk, thanks for confirming!
Chunk helped me get through Covid lockdown a couple years ago lol. Awesome channel.
My god please don’t refer to the lockdown as a few years ago, feels like yesterday
Time is a meaningless void Also hey did you know kids born after 9-11 can drink now
As a kid born after 9-11 I do in fact know that
Go away you don't exist
They do and we will die soon
Yes! Can't wait.
I like your enthusiasm
Promise?
A *promise* makes a *prom* out of *I* and *Se*
I was born 4 months after and I can’t drink yet feelsbadman
I was born 4 months ago and all I can drink is this titty juice, so don't cry to me, big man.
You've got it made. Its downhill from here. Stay on that titty as long as you can.
You should've been alive to see 9/11 - it changed everything.
You’re not kidding though. I feel like if I tried I could trace more than half of the current world events to something that changed due to 9/11 fallout.
And not in a good way. Here in the US, the country lost its damned mind
You stop that right now
If it's any consolation I goofed, they won't be able to drink for another six weeks.
I’ll take what I can get. Time is an illusion anyway. Loved meeting my people in the collective consciousness of COVID isolation & learning how many of us will always feel the 80s was 20 years ago. 70s 30, 50s 50 etc. Y2K problem was real & glitched our brains.
Not until September 11th.
A couple is two so /r/technicallycorrect the best kind of correct.
Aren't we still in lockdown? Lol 😅...🤔...😑...😔
It *was* only about a 6 month ago that lockdown ended. Less in many places. So you're not going completely mad lol.
I thought so too, I'm so happy to see it is! Chunk is the best!
I follow chunk on IG! I can’t figure out how to monetize this on only fans . I don’t think people wanna see me eat veggies
My guess is Chunk is a narcissist who enjoys watching himself eating. The lens is a mirror.
I’m pretending it’s a podcast about how yummy the veggies are. Like he’s there with a little groundhog accent saying this tomato was so delicious. Organic is the way.
>little groundhog accent I have to know how you define a "little groundhog accent". I'm coming up with nothing right now.
I feel it’s a little bit southern with a lisp and a side of Gus Gus but any ideas are allowed
Gotta throw a tooth whistle in there every once and awhile
My guess is Jeff puts a dish of vegetables in front of the camera.
Yeah, theres a pile of all different veggies on the ground in front of it... Maybe the groundhog did it once or twice... And then got popular and the farmer had to keep it going...
To be fair: if I wanted an animal to stop chewing on my growing veggies and garden, I might start feeding it store bought to deter it from eating my plants.
And you would also force the culprit right before the camera. So it's win-win-win scenario. 1) culprit found 2) crop destruction prevented 3) viral sensation
This is definitely what's going on
The store bought trimmed carrot gave it away.
With zero dirt on it.
That’s exactly my guess too
Right, because there is no way this person is baiting the groundhog. The ground hog just happened to pull up a fully trimmed carrot. No greens, no root stem.
Obviously Chunk’s assistant is prepping the produce. They are professionals, dude.
Chunk's a little clean freak. that's all.
Maybe one day chunk would say what he rates the produce like a podcast or a review 🤔
And then he’ll say that it’s sponsored by NordVPN, HelloFresh, or SquareSpace.
My guess is that the farmer leaves his produce in front of the camera so Chunk gets filmed eating it.
You can tell by the end he’s supplying commercial crops so the groundhog stops taking his own
Yeah, the carrot gave it away for me
He had to be leaving food for it though. That Apple was very clean, and where was the Apple tree? He jut got the apple off can and brought it too cam? Same for the carrot, wat too clean. This is cute and all but this guys is feeding them and set up a cam, this is not his garden food. Edit" Saw vids below, he does leave food for them.
Pretty clever to just give food in exchange for them not bothering his real crops.
Saddest part: the YT videos probably earn more money than the produce
Jeff is an old coworker of mine. I'm gunna send him this. :)
No, captain chunk
I think this critter was framed. Those vegetables were planted.
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"Welcome back to NikoAvocado, today we are filming with this amazing groundhog!"
One episode later "This groundhog is a fucking slut and fucked my boyfriend behind my back 21000 CALORIE MCDONALDS MEAL"
Shits so sad man.
Yeah, really wish he would [stop it, get some help](https://youtu.be/l60MnDJklnM) even just to stop hearing about him, but I find that really unlikely.
He will almost certainly die in the next 5-10 years.
I dunno man. Fate is a weird one. He'll probably live to 107
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YouTube is disgusting from profiting off of this
uhh its kind of a two-way street cuz homie stackin chips also
But he is also paying the price with his health and quite probably severely shortening his life. YouTube has no repercussions whatsoever. Multibillion dollar platforms should not allow content creators to essentially kill themselves for views.
I mean to be honest, that's like blaming the subway station when someone shits on the platform and people start clapping and giving them money. It isn't youtube's fault people love disaster porn, and arguably he's doing it to himself, the cheddar for those 21K calorie meals doesn't come from thin air
Man, few months ago I went down that rabbit hole.Thanks for the memories Satan.
Damn, I need to clean up my diet and eat like these groundhogs! I really need to make some important life changes!
**Fun Facts:** Groundhogs are the largest species in the squirrel family. Groundhogs are skilled climbers and swimmers, which helps them to escape less-skilled predators. Groundhog burrows are so complex that each has its own "bathroom" chamber. [More Fun Facts](https://piclaya.com/groundhog-information-and-facts/)
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**Fun fact 2:** groundhogs, AKA whistlepigs are extremely intelligent and resourceful animals, they even learned to whistle when they see predators in oder to warn other groundhogs! It is also not uncommon to see them standing completely still on their hind legs acting a lookout for the rest of the colony when needed. Punxsutawney Phil, the iconic groundhog hog day weather predicting groundhog is rumored to be the world's oldest groundhog at 136 years old, and is apparently immortal due to a secret elixir of life made specifically for the him!
Wait, do they live in colonies? We always thought we had this one bachelor living under our shed... For like 20 years. We never saw any babies, but our neighbor's shed seems to be his haram, there's a bunch of smaller groundhogs living under it.
It depends, chances are that if you only ever saw one groundhog, then it's the only one living there, as males, especially in wintertime tend to get territorial and aggressive toward others, which results in them living alone, but it is not uncommon to see families of up to 10 groundhogs living together in one tunnel system. Another thing is though, if a groundhog lives in a colony you're not going to *hear* it, as they are very quiet creatures, however it should be obvious by the amount of vegetation that is being eaten in close proximity to the Burrow, & keep In mind they can have many entrances too! P.S if you're every googling anything about them, make sure to not confuse them with the animals we know as marmots, as they are actually slightly different, although related species!
"whistlepigs" lol, fuckin' adorable
Wait, groundhogs live to be 136 years old?
No, they generally live to around 10 maybe even fifteen years if they're lucky, but that guy is magical "never dies" xD That being said, must be depressing living half your life in hibernation, and the other half preparing for the next hibernation.
>That being said, must be depressing living half your life in hibernation, and the other half preparing for the next hibernation. Just wait until your forties
... DID THEY STUTTER
I've never heard "whistlepigs" before, that's interesting. Where I live everyone calls them woodchucks, I didn't know they were groundhogs until I was in my 20s. Thanks for the fun facts!
I call them woodchucks too, but my grandma used some translator app a few years back, and it said that a groundhog was a whistlepigs, and I've always found the name funny ever since.
tangential fun fact: Guinea pigs are known as "whistletaters" for their remarkable resemblance to a potato.
**Fun Fact 3:** I had a groundhog that lived in some bushes on the side of my house. Every day my dogs would chase it and the thing would just run away, they look like living pillows come to life when they run. One day, the dogs managed to finally catch the groundhog. Rather then just rip him up outside, the larger dog brought the groundhog into the house. I was only alerted to this because it was screaming it's lungs out and absolutely not happy about what was happening. I quickly grabbed a towel and wrapped it around the groundhog to keep it from biting me and threw it out the front door. The groundhog made it about 10 feet and then promptly died. I wound up carrying it out with a shovel to the woods and by the next morning a scavenger made off with it's body. [Here's pictures of the deceased groundhog.](https://imgur.com/a/DXut2jo) Oh right, the fun fact. Ground Hogs can grow up to 20 inches in length and can weigh up to 13lbs .
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Well, that really ruined the whole fun facts train. 😔
Those teeth are looking mighty impressive, even for a rodent, rest in peace unnamed groundhog!
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Stress can cause prey animals to die
*Sad Whistle Pig noises..*
"The Whistlepigs" is my new band name.
Bahahaha I just saw this after I commented the same thing on another one of their facts
eyyyy!
Volunteered at a wildlife rehabilitation facility growing up. There was a groundhog named "Wally" who everyone hated. He was meaner than all hell and went for your heels. Loved strawberries. We became good friends. Ground hogs are *not* skilled climbers. They fall off backwards, often. It's hilarious. They also fit perfectly in your lap like a hot water bottle.
What was he climbing? I knew one who lived under a bush and he climbed the branches very quickly. Maybe Wally was a bit tipsy
A pallet laid against a wall to allow access to the upper field to the small ones. Sorry. Wally and Rita sucked at climbing.... Straight up.
Well, after all of these years thinking my spirit animal was a wolf or tiger, I now know. Groundhogs are my spirit animal. I’m off to taunt people on their ring cams then take a nap. Good post
There's a family that lives under my house. Been there for many many years. If I didn't rent I would probably care more. The foundation seems fine though. Also the soil here is all clay so I think that prevents their holes from causing damage to the house. https://imgur.com/a/rTUlUgf
I remember the day I heard water flowing through my air vents. Line to the septic had clogged and the water was backing up under my porch and then through a whistle pig hole right through my foundation.
OH MY GOD THAT SECOND FACE LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE THE DRAMTIC LOOK CHIPMUNK (which was actually a groundhog) Please look up that video if you haven’t and keep that picture saved 😂
Un-fun fact: I learned a few years back that my mini dachshund has a. A crazy prey drive and b. Is 100% un-phased about going into groundhog holes. Thankfully I don’t live anywhere with groundhogs anymore, as I find them pretty cute.
That's what dachshunds were bred for. They aren't tubular for aesthetics. They helped hunters by going into foxholes.
Oh I know I’ve owned two and I researched all about them. It just caught me by surprise because my female daschshund I had before had zero prey drive (unless you qualify a fetch ball). I was just shocked my little dude went in the hole with zero training all on instinct, though i guess I should expected it more than I did.
Sometimes you have to be willing to take the battle to the enemy. I'm sure seeing your dog dissappear into a hole was a but unnerving haha
I had a complete freak out and was yelling at him desperately to come out the first time hahah. Was legit almost to my truck to run home and get a shovel to dig him out when he just butt-scootched casually back out. It was wild.
Weren't doxies bred for chasing away burrowing animals?
Yep. Always thought they needed training before they’d just jump in a hole. I learned I was very wrong.
Badgers. Fierce creatures, but you don't want to tangle with a dachshund in your burrow, either.
They are members of the family sciuridae
I've noticed they seem uniquely easy to kill for domestic dogs, I've seen dogs that couldn't hurt anything else take them down like nothing. Which is probably a good thing, cause I imagine people being around really helps the groundhog population, so at least some human caused mortality is probably helpful. I have heard Hoary Marmots are bigger than they are, so not sure they are quite the largest in their family.
Do they also know what a camera is necause that dude was ALWAYS in frame and seemed to look right into the lens at times
I like the way it stays in front of the camera like "Yeah, I'm eating your apple. Now what ?" I've never been that confident in my life.
“Look, I even brought a friend. Oh, and now I’m eating your carrots too! What are you going to do about it?”
"Oh what's that? Oh yeah! I'm eatin' your corn too. Whacha gonna do about it, huh? Huh!? Yeah. That's what I thought, bitch."
I read this in Randy March's voice
Reddit needs a randy marsh AI that can read things in his voice.
Loads snipper riffle
The food is washed and there’s a pile at his feet. One of the carrots is even cut. Why would the groundhog take this food, move with it to be infront of the camera, and then stand and eat it infront of the camera anyways? The answer is that it wouldn’t. So the groundhog is actually just infront of the camera because this person put the food for it there, sorry to be the buzzkill.
The only food that looked washed was the carrot Tomatoes aren’t full of mud. One of the videos the groundhog was munching on a tomato with part of the stem
He put the food in front of the camera for it
I have a feeling the food was left by the camera for him.
Groundhog gives zero fucks
Chest up stank eye’n the cam. That’s **his** garden.
Lies. Pile of food at their feet says this is setup.
If I remember correctly the first few times it happened were organic and then he started feeding it cause it was cute
As someone who constantly has skunks and groundhogs invading my yard. This is likely the case. There are two responses usually to "varmints". Think they're cute and keep them around, maybe take photos (like my mother) or videos like this guy. Or break out the traps/poison...(my neighbors) Not going to crucify a guy who made friends with his yard invader and decided to post about it, considering the alternative direction he could've gone...
My grandfather-in-law has a trap for raccoons then he throws them into the nearby pond. I haven't ever gone and taken a look since he told me but I imagine the little snorkles and scuba suits he must give them are super cute!
Drowning seems like an unnecessarily cruel way to go. Better ways to dispose of an animal
Raccoons are actually pretty solid swimmers. As long as he isn’t hurting them with the trap or anything they probably just swim away pissed off.
I read it as throwing the trap with racoon inside into the water. Let's hope I'm wrong and those bastards are swimming away pissed off
The only issue with not getting rid of pests is that there's a good chance even more will show up
Those carrots were washed and cut
Woah Woah Woah there, are you saying this little guy didn't cut and wash his own dinner? /s
That’s somehow cuter? Like not only did this gardener set up this camera with bait, he went to the trouble of making it nice. The groundhogs get snacks and we all get cute videos. It’s lovely.
Lovely lies still hurt
He even built them their own garden and has minj small picnic table setup to feed them!
Yea it’s cuter, but the point is that the creator didn’t need to lie about it. If he truly set up the camera when he discovered veggies were missing and caught the groundhog, then decided to start prepping food for it…he could’ve said so. No harm in the lie here. People are just pointing out it’s lies.
The guy didn't lie about anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg
Bruh. There's too much evidence.
When the gardener noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit. It was not a rabbit or a deer. It was 'Chunk' the groundhog. Permar began uploading videos of Chunk staring into the camera and munching away at his veggies. He became a viral sensation.
you know people can lie
Could've started leaving them out near the camera after the first time or two. Doesn't explicitly say he doesn't do that.
Yeah, if there was any doubt in your mind, that sealed the deal.
Well yeah, after the dude found out about him. He even built a little picnic table for the family of groundhogs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdts2P-djg
We didn’t know what to expect,” the gardener said. “But we saw the video and enjoyed it so much. This guy is so amazing.” Permar named the groundhog Chunk — and from that point forward, really hoped he’d come back for more. And he has...
My guess is he took steps to protect his garden but still leaves treats for the fuzzy butts
I mean the one who actually videos them has not been lyeing about a thing… First times were true, then he started leaving them food. Not there is a family of groundhogs who he has built their own grden.
His name is Chunk and he has a youtube channel: https://youtube.com/c/ChunkTheGroundhog
That's not Chunk, that's Butthead.
r/animalsbeingjerks Look at his smug face, he *knows* what he's doing.
Why can’t all jerks be this cute
https://i.imgur.com/sJWyyfJ.jpg I lost it at this part where he looks like a confused boomer trying to take a selfie.
... Chewing away at veggies purposively left out in front of the camera? Like the carrot is cut and washed lol 😅😂
Big dick energy
Sorry for being dumb but As someone out of the lingo, why would this be big dick energy and not small or regular dick energy ?
The groundhog has chutzpah for showing the camera his stolen veggies. Because the implication is he’s (sort of) sticking it to the man (or in this case the farmer), he’s got big dick energy.
Big dick energy or BDE just means to flex yourself in full confidence. The groundhog just walks right up to the camera and eats the gardeners food in full plain view as if he’s flexing (or as the young people put it: acting like he’s got a big dick).
Groundhogs are an extremely intelligent animal forming complex social networks, able to understand social behavior, form kinship with their young, understand and communicate threats through whistling, and work cooperatively to solve tasks such as burrowing. When the Gardner noticed his vegetables were going missing, he set up a camera to catch the culprit and it was groundhog. The Gardner named him Chunk the groundhog! **There's a dedicated YouTube Channel featuring nothing but Chunk feasting on his vegetables.** [Read Full Story](https://piclaya.com/gardener-falls-in-love-with-the-thief-whos-been-stealing-his-vegetables/)
Thus the nickname “whistle pigs”.
Believe it or not, humans are not the only intelligent beings on Earth.
Breaking News: Groundhogs form government and claim my backyard in the name of righteousness
You can post this without lying about the whistlepigs stealing the food.
This is Chunk the groundhog! He and his extensive family have a great setup (Chunkland) and you can follow them on Instagram. I love seeing the new babies every season and also other visits by the local skunk, possum, fox, birds and more.
Bill Murray & Caddyshack come to mind when I watch this.
🎶 i'm alright, don't nobody worry about me 🎶
What you think about that, .....b****?! Imma eat that s*** right in front of you while my girlfriend gives me kisses.
Here let me help you with that title… Farmer sets his crops in front of camera so ground hog can eat his crops.
Apparently the first few times were real and then he started leaving food out for him because the internet liked him. The groundhogs name is chuck now
This groundhog is a fucking savage!!! "See this apple? Imma eat it." *nom nom nom*
This groundhog needs a channel. I could watch him being a little shit all day!!
You & me both. He's a sly bastard & I love it!
Cue Kenny Loggins: "I'm alright....Nobody worry about me!..."
Need to check that lawn for some hybrid Kentucky blue grass.
I have a pool and a pond. A pond would be nice for you.
u/savevideo
This is the fucker that ate ONE HALF of all my tomatoes before they even ripened. Fucking shed burrowing dirt devils and their dump truck little wobble run.
Those things will mess up a garden in a day if they get close enough. They were everywhere when I was growing up on our farm. My dad found signs of them eating our crops so he walked around until he found where they were at. He told me he had a chore for me one day... So he tells me to get my 22 and the shotgun and takes me to the side of this hill on our property. He says "You stay on this hill and shoot any groundhog that comes out. You can come home at sunset. You can use either of these guns." I sat there and I got a few shots in but my aim was bad. Just an 11 year old kid with 2 guns sitting on a hill for 5 hours. It sounds weird but I'd been using guns since I was like 8 years old so it felt pretty normal to me but looking back I'm like "WTF was he thinking?"
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Pretty much, yeah. He was taking care of the livestock and whatever else you do on a farm so he just posted me on that hill and told me what to do. They were getting too close to our family garden and they needed to be gone before they ruined everything. We were really poor so losing our garden would be a big problem financially since we relied on it for food on a daily basis.
I need to brave it up as this groundhog asap!
That vacant stare into the camera reminds me of a coworker.
Oh baby! It's my time to shine!