Punxsutawney Phil For Predident!!!
GROUNDHOG POWER, BABY!!!
Don't re-elect(?) a Vegetable!
Elect A Rodent!
Posted on 02/06/2022 1:54:37 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On a cold Tuesday, lifelong Florida resident Amanda Brody traveled to Punxsutawney, but not to take part in Groundhog Day festivities. She and 10 others arrived a day early to protest “the abuse of live animals.”
Brody, 29, is a senior campaigner for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. She travels the country, organizing and leading protests against animal abuse. It’s a full-time job and “my career and passion,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in West Palm Beach. She’s signed on with PETA four years ago — one year after she became a vegan and stopped eating all animals and dairy products.
The protestors did not stay for Punxsutawney Phil’s big weather reveal on Wednesday — six more weeks of winter — but they did visit him Tuesday in his habitat inside the local library. Two big windows give visitors a 24/7 view of the groundhog, although he spends much of his time in a burrow that gives him privacy.
“Phil looked bored and lonely, stuck in his little enclosure,” Brody said. “A groundhog would never choose to live like that.”
Punxsutawney Phil should be sent to a “reputable sanctuary” to live “the life nature intended for him,” according to PETA president Ingrid Newkirk. Phil is a wild animal who should be “hibernating, digging, burrowing, foraging, smelling fresh air and simply living like a sentient being, not an exhibit.”
The 75-minute protest on Tuesday was announced on a PETA event page, and although only 11 people showed up to carry signs, Brody said it was a success.
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Don’t let that desperate weatherman drive away with the Phil!
Just wait until they find out what Fauxci has been up to.
“It’s a full-time job and “my career and passion,” she said”
What she really means is that she’s made it her religion and that she has ways of dealing with people who try to shut her up. She’s militant but tries to disguise her act by describing herself in more benign terms. To do what she really wants to do, she can’t afford to be honest.
DANG!
Punxsutawney Phil For Predident!!!
GROUNDHOG POWER, BABY!!!
Don't re-elect(?) a Vegetable!
Elect A Rodent!
She should protest Blazio’s killing Phil.
I would prefer a Cthulu-Cloverfield ticket. Why keep choosing the lesser evil?
Hey pita, I’ve killed hundreds of ground hogs and collected the bounty for them in my younger years. (After my young female cousin fell into a groundhog hole and was seriously injured). They are a pox on the land and a danger to humans.
This is the sort of thing that weakens a somewhat justifiable cause.
Makes me think many are stupid at PETA. I grew up on a beautiful 98 rolling acre farm in S indiana with cows , chickens , dogs ….and yes groundhogs. No Deer, believe it or not they had been hunted out of the area. I clearly remember seeing my first deer in the mid-1970s it was a big buck being chased cross a field by a pack of semi-feral dogs our neighbor had. I was transfixed. Anyway I digress.
Dad had a tractor accident that an old timer neighbor saw the aftermath of and said it was proof god existed. Dad had a ditch collapse on him when the tractor ran over a groundhog burrow and it flipped upside down with him and my toddler 1st cousin on it, miraculously neither was even scratched. After that he had a hatred bordering on obsession for ground hogs. I’ve seen the quiet animals shot, stabbed, hung, trapped, torn up by dogs and he even once poured an entire 5 gallon can of gasoline down a burrow and lit a match to it. Flames shot up out of the ground in places I didn’t even know had holes.
Then there are the foxes, coyotes, hawks that others mentioned. A wild groundhog lives a short terrifying life often ending in severe pain.
Then you have Punxsutawney Phil, lives a Life of rodent luxury. Yet PETA compIains about it—-what a bunch of idiots.
This is the sort of thing that weakens a somewhat justifiable cause.
Makes me think many are stupid at PETA. I grew up on a beautiful 98 acre rolling farm in S indiana with cows , chickens , dogs ….and yes groundhogs. No Deer, believe it or not they had been hunted out of the area. I clearly remember seeing my first deer in the mid-1970s it was a big buck being chased cross a field by a pack of semi-feral dogs or neighbor had. I was transfixed. Anyway I digress.
Dad had a tractor accident that an old timer neighbor say the aftermath of and said it was proof god existed. Dad had a ditch collapse on him when the tractor ran over a groundhog burrow and it flipped upside down with him and my toddler 1st cousin on it, miracously neither was even scratched. After that he had a hatred bordering on obsession for ground hogs. I’ve seen the quiet animals shot, stabbed, hung, trapped, torn up by dogs and he even once poured an entire 5 gallon can of gs down a burrow and lit a match to it. Flames shot upmost of the ground on places I didn’t even know had holes.
Then there are the foxes, coyotes, hawks that others mentioned. A wild groundhog lives a short terrifying life often ending in severe pain.
Then you have
It sounds like little Princess Mandy can’t find a real job.
Professional Karens on the march!!
This Amanda broad has WAY too much time on her hands.
Must be a trust fund baby.
Is it wrong to choose the slightly more cute and almost cuddly ticket?
My former neighbor Ralph bought a 'Hav-A-Hart' trap to
to catch the groundhog that dug a burrow under
his backyard deck. He wanted the little beast GONE.
And he wanted the trap so the thing would stay still
while he shot it in the head with a .38.
Which he did.
Ralph always was a little twisted.
People Eating Tasty Animals... 🤓
By the way Ms Brody, how do you know if Phil is bored? Did you talk to him? I don't think a groundhog knows what boredom is ..
Please, give me a lesson on how a groundhog is bored. I need to be as smart as you in Behavioral Issues of Groundhogs.
So how much CO2 did those morons create in traveling to that protest? Guess they care more about exposing an animal to cold weather for a couple of hours than saving the planet.
My mother in law lived most of her life on the edge of an Ivy League University Campus.
She was in her 80s and hated those pesky squirrels. I noticed she caught one in her live trap and offered to take it to the farm to release it.
She rejected my idea.
Later, I found that she had a 5 gallon bucket of water in the basement where she would submerge the entire trap, drowning the squirrels.
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