PHILADELPHIA — We’re pleased to bring you very serious and important breaking news regarding cute, furry, baby animals and Pennsylvania lore: Punxsutawney Phil and his wife, Phyllis, have babies.
As first reported by ABC27 News, the iconic groundhog couple has welcomed two baby groundhogs into their family. Although we don’t know their names, Thomas Dunkel, president of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, told the TV station that the woodchuck pups are healthy — and that their entry was a surprise.
“We did not think that this would happen in captivity because it never has,” Dunkel said. “But apparently, we were wrong.”
According to the lore, this is the first time in 138 years that the groundhogs have procreated.