Anyone ever sighted a woodchuck in tree?!

[Michael Arnette]

Anyone ever seen a woodchuck climb trees? I've seen it twice while out scouting over the years. Both were before smart phones so I wasn't able to take a picture. One was in a small pecan and the other in a locust tree.

[RJonesRCRV]

I saw one at least 20" up a pine years ago.  I asked my parents and they said theyve seen it some too.

Apparently grey foxes can climb some as well.

[Michael Arnette]

Well I didn't think I was crazy...

[longstiks]

First time I saw one I thought it was a tree rat on steroids,but then I saw it was lacking the tail! I don't know why one would want to climb a tree though.
Denny

[Bowwild]

You bet.  My little mongrel dog used to tree them often when I was a teenager. I climbed a tree once and got just below the groundhog. He came down and stopped right at my forearm. I thought, uh-oh, I'm going to get bit! We were eye to eye at less than a foot.

That one was about 15'. I've seen them unpressured in trees about 10' or so.

He didn't bite. He went on down he tree.  I voluntarily deducted 10 points from my I.Q. after that...put me in single digits!

[Friend]

Have witnessed it before.

[hawk22]

I shot one out of a tree last spring

[bucknut]

Yes, several times. They use them as an escape route sometimes. I have seen them feed in trees before also.

[Bowjunkie]

Yep, a handful of times. One was up pretty high in an oak tree.

[highlow]

Yup. A number of times. Definitely not as agile as a tree rat but they can climb.

[LostNation_Larry]

Had a beagle who treed a woodchuck one time.  That dog was ecstatic!  A snuffer through the skull ruined the woodchucks day.

[Tim]

Here in PA I've seen them climb up into the Mulberry trees in the spring.  They're pretty good climbers.

[Buckeye1977]

Have had my beagles run them up in honeysuckle bushes a lot! They can get up in there pretty quickly!

[hawkeye n pa]

I've seen them in a tree many times, have shot a few of them.  My dog's have treed them.  Years ago I hunted a orchard and one particular groundhog would bask in the sun on a big apple tree limb ten feet up.

[GreyGoose]

Heavens, yes.  I've shot one that had climbed well up the trunk of a spruce Christmas tree in my parents front yard.  Dad used to have a nice bearing cherry tree out back, and I witnessed a groundhog up in it to harvest some.

[Tom]

Killed several that were trees in an apple orchard I used to live near.

[dhaverstick]

When I was a kid, my sister had a half Walker half Redbone hound named John Yeller who was too lazy to breathe if he didn't have to. One day I heard him barking up the road and I went to investigate. I found him underneath a persimmon tree with a young groundhog up in it about 10 feet. Feeling like the dog had finally redeemed himself, I ran back to the house as fast as I could to get a gun. On my return trip, ole John Yeller met me about half way; leaving his post and letting the whistle pig get away. At least he was consistent about amounting to nothing!

Darren

[black velvet]

Seen them in trees many times when I was into chuck hunting big time.

[Anointed Archer]

Yepper, had one that would climb a tree and just taunt my dog terrible. One day I seen the hog meesing with my dog. I snuck around the house and shot it off the limb right in my dogs lap. Wish I had a camera as that critters eyes got as big as softballs when my dogs jaws wrapped around it's head, LOL

[Homey88]

Yes sir!