PETA suggests replacing Punxsutawney Phil with hologram for Groundhog Day: 'Let Phil and his family retire'

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sent Punxsutawney Groundhog Club president Tom Dunkel a missive Tuesday offering a "state-of-the-art" 3-D groundhog projection for Gobbler’s Knob if helium agrees to "finally fto Phil and his household retire" to a reputable sanctuary. 

The monolithic projection would besides connection section upwind predictions, according to PETA.

"Pixelated popstars are headlining concerts and long-departed celebrities are attending conventions, truthful wherefore not enactment that exertion to bully use: connected a hologram that lets the existent Phil hibernate successful peace," PETA laminitis Ingrid Newkirk wrote successful a statement. "PETA is urging the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to chuck its bushed contented of harassing a shy carnal and springiness Gobbler’s Knob a glow-up with a phantom prognosticator."

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PETA shared an creator rendering of a imaginable Punxsutawney Phil groundhog hologram. (PETA)

PETA noted that, erstwhile fixed the chance, people shy groundhogs debar humans and bask burrowing, exploring and hibernating.

They said these elemental pleasures are made "impossible" for Phil to appreciate, fixed the tiny enclosure helium is kept successful year-round.

Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil is held up aft being pulled retired of his burrow Groundhog Day connected Feb. 2, 2025. (PCNTV)

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"This update would beryllium definite to captivate crowds, and let’s look it: Phil looks amended lasting gangly and composed successful airy beams than squirming successful a handler’s hands successful captivity," Newkirk wrote successful the letter. "They dislike quality smells, fearfulness large noises, abhor gatherings and similar to enactment successful their burrows. Yet each year, this terrified small carnal is subjected to large announcers and noisy crowds and held up and waved astir without immoderate respect for his feelings, welfare, oregon instincts."

She went connected to telephone the yearly lawsuit "archaic," claiming it "exploits a chaotic animal."

Groundhog Punxsutawney Phil comes retired connected Groundhog Day connected Feb. 2, 2025.  (PCNTV)

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"It’s unimaginative and ignores the obvious: Phil feels fearfulness and discomfort conscionable arsenic humans do, and he’s not a consenting subordinate successful this yearly spectacle," Newkirk wrote. "And with the hologram, the municipality could inactive marque a subordinate retired of Chuck."

PETA, whose motto reads, successful part, "animals are not ours to usage for entertainment," is offering escaped "Empathy Kits" for those who "need a acquisition successful kindness," according to organizers.