You can't trust those West Coast marmots like you can the Eastern Groundhog. A groundhog might take a finger off if you're dumb enough to try to pet it, but those Western marmots will give you the Plague just like their Asian cousins, if you don't follow the Mongolian Method of cleaning and cooking them. Your pal McGreevy seems cooty enough to eat marmot,Teotwaki. Tell him the trick is to kill,clean, and cook the marmot while getting those hundreds of hungry fleas that were on the marmot looking for a warm-bloodied host somewhere besides himself. If he can figure that out, he'll live fat and happy the rest of his life.
BTW, I've ran across the name Steven P. McGreevy once or twice in my Pirate career. An alias of yours or a running fake feud ala Al Fansome and myself? I'll step aside if it's either. I hated it when people tried to horn in that didn't know the schtick.