Like just about everyone else in the region, Montgomery County Police officers want to catch Punxsutawney Phil and wring his little groundhog neck.

Potomac Phil may have been a stuffed groundhog, but PETA doesn’t think that the annual Groundhog Day celebration is anything to take lightly.

On the same day that something happened in a small town in Pennsylvania, Potomac Phil emerged from his mid-winter slumber for long enough to tell anxious D.C. residents what they didn’t want to hear — we’ve got six more weeks of winter coming.