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Gerald Hawkins’ recent op-ed article about ground hogs (March 22) was, as usual, amusing and informative. It may be, however, that my daughter knew about the kitty litter trick long before Mr. Hawkins did. She has been saving kitty litter for some time — right there in the kitty litter box. Works, too; there are no ground hogs in her room.
Did you know that there is a ground hog in South Africa? It’s the aardvark (from dutch: aardt = earth and vark = pig).
And did you know that the other common name for a. ground hog, woodchuck, is derived from its American Indian name, which has nothing to do with wood or chucking? It turns out that the only sensible answer to the old question, “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” is that it’s a silly question.
It was not, by the way, pure cussedness that caused Mr. Hawkins’ ground hogs to attack the clay cement in the foundation of his house. They were merely doing their own dental work, necessary because otherwise their teeth would continue to grow, eventually making it impossible for them to eat.
I should also note that when Mr. Hawkins calls ground hogs “vermin” he is speaking, not as a scientist, but as an enemy of ground hogs. The word vermin does not appear in'
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