Groundhog Troubles

We have just learned that the state of Ohio is trying to take a groundhog to court over their failure to accurately predict the weather and the continuing absence of spring. Now our groundhog siblings are in a panic over this, sure that widespread persecution of the groundhog is nigh. They're making plans to open up a refuge in the poolhouse for poor, innocent persecuted groundhogs to flee to in order to escape the law. Really, we don't know what those people are thinking, going after the groundhogs. Why don't they go after the humans who forecast the weather instead? At least the groundhogs don't gloat nearly as much about various predictions as them.