That there is a big ole Groundhog. Quite common in the eastern and north eastern USA.
When I was a kid, my Aunt and Uncle owned about 120 acres outside of Frederick, MD. what they didn't live on, they leased to a local cattle farmer. My cousins and I would walk the property and kill as many Groundhogs as we could find, and fill in their holes to keep the cattle from stepping in them and breaking a leg, which cost the cattle farmer a loss in profit if they weren't fully fattened up yet.
We''d find a hole and my cousin Scott would get his scoped rifle out and we'd sit off of it 50-75 yards or so, and when Scott gave the word we'd whistle, and those hogs would pop up out of their holes out of curiosity and BANG !!! Nothing but chunks from the shoulders up. To a threesome of 12-14 year old boys, this was the height of summertime entertainment in the country.
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Just a blind squirrel looking for a nut.
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