Another day, another groundhog.

I came home from work on Monday and found evidence of another groundhog: a hole had been dug under the fence from our neighbor’s back yard, so I decided to set up the trap again, baiting it with broccoli doused with vanilla extract.  Tuesday night the trap and bait had been untouched, so I moved the trap closer to where the hole had been dug, and sure enough when I came home Wednesday there was another groundhog peering out at me from the trap.  Instead of throwing the cage into the back of the car to “go for a ride” with the varmint, I took it with me for the 35+ mile trip to work at the Hopewell site and let it loose there.  I could almost hear the strains of Born Free playing as I watched it run away from the cage and into the wild; well, maybe not, but I did learn something from the experience: if you leave your formerly groundhog occupied trap in the back of your car in the hot sun while you are at work all day, leave the windows open.  A lot.