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Location: In The Snow, AZ | So let's play a game... hubby found this thing, already dead, presumably by the barn cats. It is approx 7 inches long. Obviously not a mouse so I assumed it was a rat as I have never seen one before. Lol. I've shown it to a few people and they're saying it's NOT a rat and possibly something either mutated or a cross breed of some sort? Wondering what y'all thought and hoping I never see one again.
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Science experiment?
Radiation?
Genetically modified?
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | With that tail my vote goes to the Bushy Tailed Woodrat |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/44761-Neotoma-cinerea/browse_photos
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | I dunno, he's pretty adorable in comparison...
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Looks like a pack rat that is decomposing.. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Looks like a pack rat or a muskrat to me. |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Rule out muskrat as they dont have a furry tail....what about a groundhog. ..do u guys have those...so after google i am gonna go with the above guess as well...bushy tailed wood rat...m
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Location: Texas | Looks like a groundhog in the beginning stages of decomposition. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | What do you guys think about a gopher? Our groundhogs/prairie dogs don't look anything like it.
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| ~BINGO~ - 2017-07-03 3:59 PM
What do you guys think about a gopher? Our groundhogs/prairie dogs don't look anything like it.
LOL, what we call a ground hog around here goes 15 to 20 pounds, but I am guessing you are referring to a prairie dog?
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | rodeoveteran - 2017-07-03 2:35 PM
~BINGO~ - 2017-07-03 3:59 PM
What do you guys think about a gopher? Our groundhogs/prairie dogs don't look anything like it.
LOL, what we call a ground hog around here goes 15 to 20 pounds, but I am guessing you are referring to a prairie dog?
A rat is a rat is a rat IMHO.
Lol, yes, ours are prarie dogs. But you're right, a rat is a rat! |
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Location: Sunnyland Florida | ~BINGO~ - 2017-07-03 12:02 PM I dunno, he's pretty adorable in comparison...
That looks like a rat/squirrel cross...... LOL
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Location: Montana | ~BINGO~ - 2017-07-03 9:45 AM So let's play a game... hubby found this thing, already dead, presumably by the barn cats. It is approx 7 inches long. Obviously not a mouse so I assumed it was a rat as I have never seen one before. Lol. I've shown it to a few people and they're saying it's NOT a rat and possibly something either mutated or a cross breed of some sort? Wondering what y'all thought and hoping I never see one again.
Not a gopher. I'd probably say rock chuck if I were to guess.  |
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Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | See thats what i thought as well..the fur looks really soft..but I thought couldn't be a chinny...lol...m |
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 Cotton Balls are the Devil
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Location: My own little world! | It's hard to tell for sure from it's current state, but I say pack rat. Some people call them a wood rat. I call them horrible. Because they are Horrible. They look sorta cute, with their big eyes, but it's a trick. They will destroy your vehicle trying to make a nest in the engine area. They smell, they pick my flowers and try a make a nest in all kinds of places they don't belong.
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Southtxponygirl - 2017-07-03 10:14 AM Looks like a pack rat that is decomposing..
I agree. They are interesting creatures but very destructive. They take "pretties" and leave you junk.  |
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| Chupacabra... I'm "almost" certain. |
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Location: "Si Fi" Ville | Awwww something up my "alley". That is a decomposing flying squirrel to which I have regular wars with in my attic. Quite cute but will burn your house down after throwing a party worthy of the bawdiest rowdiest fraternity.
I've actually shared my pajamas with one, nonconsensual of course! |
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Location: Arkansas | Whiteboy - 2017-07-06 12:40 PM
Chupacabra... I'm "almost" certain.
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Still saying its a packrat are just a plain old rat. |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Chandler's Mom - 2017-07-06 5:36 PM
Whiteboy - 2017-07-06 12:40 PM
Chupacabra... I'm "almost" certain.
I swear that's exactly what I thought too
 This is what my moms husband said too!
Whatever it is, I've never seen anything like it around here before. My mom had a pack rat problem (in a rental*my mom is extremely clean). She had the exterminator out and he showed her one. It apparently didn't look anything like this. But maybe it's state of decomposition changed his boyish good looks. Regardless, I do hope to not see any more of them! |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | ~BINGO~ - 2017-07-07 9:59 AM
Chandler's Mom - 2017-07-06 5:36 PM
Whiteboy - 2017-07-06 12:40 PM
Chupacabra... I'm "almost" certain.
I swear that's exactly what I thought too This is what my moms husband said too!
Whatever it is, I've never seen anything like it around here before. My mom had a pack rat problem (in a rental*my mom is extremely clean ). She had the exterminator out and he showed her one. It apparently didn't look anything like this. But maybe it's state of decom position changed his boyish good looks. Regardless, I do hope to not see any more of them!
Perhaps it was a single chupacabra and the world is now rid of that menacing creature |
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