I was also contemplating what the process might be, and how difficult it might be, to replace an albino groundhog, when Wiarton Wille was mysteriously missing from photographs on Groundhog Day.
https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/it-is-deja-vu-for-wiarton-willie-after-no-show-on-groundhog-day
Groundhog Day is such a sham, since "an early spring" and "6 more weeks of winter" are exactly the same prediction where I live in Ontario. Spring doesn't come that early. It's longer than 6 weeks every year.
Still, it's kind of nice to celebrate one of the in-between-solstice-and-equinox quarter days.