Growing a lush and beautiful garden is enough of a challenge on its own, but with animals around, the obstacles standing between you and your dream garden may feel endless. Dogs and cats can ignore ...

From the whispering serpent of Eden to folkloric tales warning us to mistrust these slippery creatures, we have all been conditioned to mistrust snakes. But, in the very ordinary setting of a backyard ...

Q: What can we do about the groundhogs in our garden? There are whole families of them. We’ve tried red pepper and they just kind of eat around that. Help! Janet Otey, Roanoke A: I feel your pain, ...

Groundhog Day in your yard? Here's how to get rid of them forever originally appeared on Dengarden. The groundhog shown in the movie Groundhog Day looks like a cute little creature, but, when colonize ...

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Learn More › But what attracts groundhogs to people’s yards? It all comes down to the answer to one question, and that’s “What do groundhogs eat?” A woodchuck’s diet consists of flowers, vegetables, ...

For the first time ever, Phil has found post-Groundhog Day employment Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, The ...

At the first of this week, we went through one of our annual rituals of looking to a groundhog to prognosticate the weather. Of course, I am talking about Punxsutawney Phil. The way this plays out is ...

Groundhog Day was on Sunday, one of our more unique holidays where we get a seasonal weather forecast from a beloved rodent. The main one is Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania, but Georgia also has its ...

Local meteorologists may offer scientifically-informed forecasts but the tradition of Groundhog Day is all about getting a weather report from a groundhog — or another critter. And those ...

Yesterday we turned to our favorite weather-predicting critters for a weather update. Pennsylvania has the famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil and Indiana has its own groundhog named after the town in ...