how much wood could a woodchuck chuck

If it lived in our backyard?

We'll keep you posted on that one. Coincidentally, Wikipedia taught me that the etymology of the name woodchuck has nothing to do with either wood or chucking, but is based on a Native American word for it (wuchak).  

I was a little freaked out at first that it was a nutria rat.  Thank you very much for that particular phobia, little brother. However, after much googling and some intense tail comparisons, we determined it to be a less creepy type of rodent.  Ladies and gentlemen, meet our resident whistle-pig.  We have named him Chuckles (and by we I obviously mean me, since Mr. Clean doesn't really go around giving wild animals goofy names very often (which is likely a good thing since I fulfill the goofy quota for two people without really trying)).   

We also have wild bunnies hopping around back there.  Those didn't take us nearly so long to identify.  :)