Groundhog Food?
This may sound crazy, but we have a resident groundhog living under our shed. We thought we chased her, only to find out she had babies. Now I don't have the heart to chase her out. Is there anything I could leave out for her to nibble on?
USAfirst Carrots, they love carrots. We've had a family of groundhogs out back and by our shed over the past 17 years. I just leave carrots out for them, they love it. I guess they'd eat most vegetables, but I read they don't like anything with a pepper taste.
Don They eat fruits and vegetables. Contact Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary on their Facebook page to ask any other questions
Quiet One 
Bob Kunkel Feeding grounder pounders......I think I just got sick a little bit in my mouth...….
What's next ---- feeders for bear and deer?
strangerdanger 
4catmom 
CBGB I had the same--a pair of groundhogs living under my shed. They were like pets--I gave them names, and I actually used to be able to call them to come out and eat. I fed them all sorts of fruits and vegetables, but they seemed to love apples, above all. So, I used to stop at one of the local orchards and get the cheapest apples they had, to feed my chubby little furry friends.
JerseyWolf I recall when I was young my father always fed our resident groundhog romaine lettuce. We would watch from the window as he lumbered up to the pile and gobbled it up.
Greg I've had at least one or 2 groundhogs living in my backyard for 20+ years. I have 2 big holes they tunneled at either end of the yard. I enjoy watching them. This is the first year I've seen 2 baby/juvenile ones. They are more than welcome in my yard.
Denis In reading this thread I can't believe that there are people who actually treat groundhogs like this. Not what I was expecting to read at all.
I can't wait to get rid of one with my have a heart trap right now. We had one several years ago living under a pine tree in the back yard. Our shed was on a cement slab yet the groundhog got underneath it and ate through the bottom of the floor. My husband sealed up the sides only to have it eat the wood siding of the shed. We then had to put plastic siding over what was chewed to stop it from doing that.
A neighbors deck gave way from one tunneling and eating the wood of it. This same neighbor had beautiful peach trees that the groundhog also destroyed. In case you didn't know groundhogs can climb trees. They would climb the peach trees and then go out onto the branches for the peaches. With the weight of the peaches and groundhog the branches would break! I didn't believe that they could climb trees until I saw it for myself when one climbed about 25 feet up my apple tree when I chased it.
We also had one get into a fight with a husky dog and rips it's lip.
Bow and arrows worth much better than the have a heart trap!
magpie Mine have never caused any problem in 20+ years, but then I don't have any fruit trees. I've had 2 dogs both who were trained to roam the backyard without a leash, never had a problem. They have always had a live and let live relationship. Every once in a while the dog I have now will wander towards them and they just jump in their hole.
Magpie, just like us, groundhogs are just simple creatures trying to survive and find some happiness in the world. And just like humans, some are peaceful and charming, while others are destructive and violent. The groundhogs who lived under my shed, for years, never harmed me or damaged the shed, nor did their offspring who lived there. In fact, having them around brought me much happiness. So, while I can understand--and even support--your desire to rid yourself of destructive groundhogs, I have no desire to harm all groundhogs. Just as I have no desire to harm all people of any particular race/ethnicity/religion, based upon the actions of a few.
If you must relocate your groundhogs, please try to do them no harm. And please try to do so without hate or anger or malice.
It’s about respecting and appreciating wildlife.
This is their home too.
Cohabiting with your neighbors.
Positive Now I've seen everything , people treating overgrown rats as pets .We used to shoot those varmits with .22s and the farmers were thankful for the service of ridding them of crop eating pests .I worked for a short time at Panther Valley Apartments decades ago and residents got mad when the manager smoke bombed them out when they were literally digging up the foundation of a building .Rest assured when they start destroying your property your opinion of them will change right quick!
https://www.creaturecontrol.net/groundhogs-and-foundation-damage/
DeweyFoonduh 
You guys are so funny! Never thought I would care about feeding a groundhog, but there you have it. And yes, I even named her Lulu. I will try to give them a treat every now and then. Your suggestions are appreciated
As a general rule, you shouldn’t feed wild animals. You’re not helping them. I assumed people knew this.
ConsigliereCan’t shoot them! There would be no “Groundhog Day”! We always have a resident groundhog under our shed. They LOVE sheds. I used to relocate them, only to have another take its place. Now I just leave them be, except for the occasional snack, using leftovers from salad stuff. Now we have a big ,pregnant, momma. She loves grass, so we “cut” the lawn, together....although she’s very slow, at it. :-) I think they’re kind of cute, IMHO.
Guilty-Remnant by feeding wild animals you are doing a major disservice to them as you are creating a dependence. regardless of what it is, feeding wild animals should not be done.
Joe Friday Feeding them a few treats is hardly creating a dependence. Do you tell people to not put out bird feeders and nuts for squirrels? Maybe start campaigning the stores that sell bird seed because it's "feeding wild animals".
Always a killjoy in the group.
there are plenty of resources online that provide clear evidence of why feeding wild animals should not be done. don't be ignorant to the harm that can be caused because you want to "feel good".
A "major disservice" to wildlife is taking more and more of their natural environment away, putting more and more dangerous roads through their habitat, polluting their land and water, hunting them for sport, and drastically changing the climate affecting them.
We are all entitled to our opinions, which may end up being right or wrong. But I, for one, am not averse to sharing an occasional snack with some of the amazing and fascinating creatures with whom we share this world.
Amazing and fascinating creature here wondering what JerseyWolf has in his lunchbox.I could use a little sumpin sumpin right about now...
ianimal 
Chris S. Yeah America, feel free to be bad as long as you can find something worse.
There was a time when right was absolute and not relative.....or marginal.....or imaginary.
Not me! Jerry Lee tried to kill me last fall....I have a no Groundhog zone in my yard. LOL
Joe Friday is right, as a general rule feeding is not good for wildlife, and yes, that includes birds. I know no one wants to hear that. :-)
An occasional snack, okay (sugar-free, hopefully, they can't see the dentist!).
Giving birds something in harsh winter weather, sure.
jd2 
Boomer 50 
htownguy Worthwhile to bring back for all those who think feeding wildlife is cute and nice and has no repercussions:
http://www.fox35orlando.com/news/u-s-and-world-news/oregon-bear-put-down-after-people-feed-him-take-selfies-officials-say
Please do not feed the wildlife - If something seems ill or injured - call your animal control person..............Antler Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary cares for orphaned babies until they are ready to be released back to the wilds..........and we can advise. But feeding is just not the right thing to do - Animals will become dependent, lose their fear of humans, and perhaps become ill from the wrong types of food.
Evil government officials slaughtering a creature does not mean that being kind to the creature was also wrong.
JW, please reread the article. This has nothing to do with "evil government officials" but everything to do with a bear in the wild becoming reliant on people to exist.
Feeding wildlife is not being kind.
As to groundhog food, I have had ground hog in chili and it is quite tasty if you have enough peppers, beans and cook it long enough.
Agust 
Debbie Polson Please don’t feee these things they carry ticks and should be living in the woods. Easy way to get rid of them. Go to a pool store or Lowe’s or Home Depot and buy the biggest Chlorine pellets they have. I promise you they will never return if you throw them down the hole and around it
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