Sleepin Like the Dead

PJ got in the habit of catchin' a few Zzzz outside the burrow on warm afternoons this summer (this was July 5th). Not a very wise practice for groundhogs that don't want to end up in a hawk's bill. But what was even more disturbing was how dead he looked!  I had a mini heart attack every time I'd look outside and see him laying there like roadkill.

In fact, it turned out that PJ would sleep just about anywhere. Here he is sleepin' on a cool concrete slab a few feet from the burrow entrance: