To: Willie Green
OK, animal experts. Identify this animal for me: It's as big as a small cat and looks like a groundhog, except that it has a skinny tail like a snake. I saw one the other day in the grass by a mailbox in a nearby neighborhood when I was distributing campaign literature. I thought it might be a rat, but it was VERY big and had a blunt nose, not a pointy nose. I once saw something like it swimming in the river in a neighboring town. I live in Wisconsin.
What is it?
To: afraidfortherepublic
It could have been a muskrat, I guess.
To: afraidfortherepublic
"Identify this." Muskrat? They look a lot like beavers, but they have rat tails.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Sounds like a muskrat. Near any bodies of water or swamps?
25 posted on
04/22/2002 11:23:43 AM PDT by
Catspaw
To: afraidfortherepublic
Possum?
31 posted on
04/22/2002 11:36:43 AM PDT by
maxwell
To: afraidfortherepublic
Sounds like a possum.
44 posted on
04/22/2002 12:26:54 PM PDT by
Tribune7
To: afraidfortherepublic
Wait until after it freezes, and your muskrat's pelt will be worth $2.
To: afraidfortherepublic
My guess is you are looking at a "nutria." They are sort of like large rats as you mentioned. My grandfather had a rash of them once at his lakeside house. He chased them off with an airgun.
To: afraidfortherepublic
Was this your friend at the mailbox?
Or this?
Nutria. A rat-like little critter.
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