The problem with modern day Groundhog Day is that the animals they are using are basically domesticated. I have a groundhog in my yard, he lives in a hollow tree trunk, observing him or her over the years - he doesn't emerge from his burrow until there is at the least a couple crocus flowers for him to munch on. If there is no green grass, or flowers to eat we don't see him/her until spring. Never seen him in the cold weather at all. Which makes me wonder why Groundhogs Day is in February, it's not natural to them. Half the time the Predicting Groundhogs run back into there enclosure because there are too many people and noise, not because he saw his shadow. Anyway it's fun to think it will work, he does have a 50 /50 chance to be right - good odds.
The problem with modern day Groundhog Day is that the animals they are using are basically domesticated. I have a groundhog in my yard, he lives in a hollow tree trunk, observing him or her over the years - he doesn't emerge from his burrow until there is at the least a couple crocus flowers for him to munch on. If there is no green grass, or flowers to eat we don't see him/her until spring. Never seen him in the cold weather at all. Which makes me wonder why Groundhogs Day is in February, it's not natural to them. Half the time the Predicting Groundhogs run back into there enclosure because there are too many people and noise, not because he saw his shadow. Anyway it's fun to think it will work, he does have a 50 /50 chance to be right - good odds.