# Groundhog in the house. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 14, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086 "2019-07-14T22:22:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/1 "2019-07-14T22:22:18Z")
We are moving next week. Not far, just a couple miles and we are moving some of the more fragile items ourselves. So yesterday we spent a good deal of the day with the doors open (to the house, to garage, from the garage to the house). At some point my said, “I just saw a giant rat.” Eventually I saw it too, in the living room behind the sofa. We didn’t know what to do. Finally my wife thought to call public security who sent two men out. They spent an hour or more here. When they saw it they called it a marmotte (French for groundhog). By this time, it had hidden under a radiator. They had some kind of lasso on a stick and they poked and prodded it for nearly an hour and eventually got the lasso around its middle and carried it outside where it thankfully scampered off. Phew! Never a dull moment. We did some more moving today, but were careful to keep the door closed. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/2 "2019-07-14T23:41:04Z")
The worst part is that tomorrow he’ll be back, and you’ll have to do the whole thing all over again. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/3 "2019-07-14T23:56:54Z")
And the day after that. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/4 "2019-07-15T00:37:50Z")
Maybe if you give him flapjacks… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/5 "2019-07-15T00:40:24Z")
Never forget!!! [Evil Nazi Groundhogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=15906) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/6 "2019-07-15T02:21:53Z")
You should name him Phil. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/7 "2019-07-15T12:03:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > And the day after that. And yet again, the day after that. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/8 "2019-07-15T12:29:12Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > They had some kind of lasso on a stick and they poked and prodded it for nearly an hour and eventually got the lasso around its middle … He might be okay. \*\*\* Fwoosh \*\*\* ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/groundhog-in-the-house/837086/9 "2019-07-15T13:39:50Z")
What I want to know is, why does this animal have so many names? Groundhog, woodchuck, groundpig, whistlepig, whistler, thickwood badger, Canada marmot, monax, moonack, weenusk, red monk… Anyone with that many names is up to no good.