Moving Day

We returned from vacation Monday to find that something had been feasting on the flowers and herbs planted on our deck. My Italian parsley plant was reduced to bare stalks, and various flowers were deadheaded. Seems it didn’t like the rosemary or basil, though, so they were spared.

We put out our havahart trap, baited it with apple halves and waited. About 10 AM this morning the bait was taken and we had our culprit... a fat and sassy groundhog!

Poor thing was not happy with the trap and even less happy when we went to say hello. It didn’t squeak or growl, but gave us lots of teeth chattering.

He/she went for a long ride in the back of the truck to a new home in a remote park area.

Dave reports once the trap door was opened that groundhog took off like a shot and never looked back. It seems that groundhogs can really run fast when motivated!