Black Grounhog; Bob!

[vaygirl]

His name is Bob. My husband names pretty much everything Bob. We've been seeing him around for a while now but today he was behind our condo by the creek.

We get a LOT of Leucism in our mallard ducks. Now Melanism in a ground hog. Makes me wonder what the heck is in the water around here.

Onto Bob pics!

[Alexanderismylife]

LOL He is CUTE!! :] I love groundhogs..

[Jessiefish]

Bob is cute.

[camsgirl95]

haha we have acouple ground hogs livin around here...ones name is george and we have yet to name the other lol very cute pics! xD

[FireKidomaru]

wow! hes something else! thats really cool... never seen a black groundhog before

[vaygirl]

I've never seen one before him. We usually see him in a yard about a 1/2 block from here when we drive to the train station in the mornings. I'm pretty sure he lives under their shed. Their property backs up on a park.

I wish we had better pics. He's really pretty in person. I'll keep an eye out for him. There's a den right across from us by the creek. I don't know if he'll use it but I can hope! Other groundhogs have used it. Black groundhogs are supposed to be rare. When we saw him behind the neighbors deck we went running around like the three stooges trying to grab our camera. We love animals. :P

[dramaqueen]

He's cute! We have groundhogs around here.

[Alienbetta1]

Watch out it might be a porcupine!My mom saw a porcupine and thought it was a big black ground hog!

[Campbell]

Originally Posted by Alienbetta1

Watch out it might be a porcupine!My mom saw a porcupine and thought it was a big black ground hog!

That's not a porcupine...

[Betta Slave]

No, definitely a ground hog. Porcupines are more hunchy and have visible spikes.

He's so cute :3 We only have prairie dogs around here.