Whats on your neighbors porch ?
 

Found this little guy camping on my neighbors porch.Can't figure out what it is ? Anybody ID furry critters ?

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ground hog

Woodchuck aka groundhog... I have 5 of those bastards living under my shed, DESTROYING the gardens in the neighborhood... they are really cute until you plant a garden...

He looked a bit agitated when I got up close.Is it normal for them to be out during the day just hanging on peoples porches.Do they get rabies ?

the darn buggers will take one bite out of everything in your veggie garden. Wouldn't be bad if they just ate one thing complete but they like to sample and move on. Find the burrow, hope for only 1 entrance, jam a hose down it and flood them out and wait at the entrance with a pellet gun and a shot to the noggin. Stinks killing anything but they are too destructive. A free ranging dog at home will usually keep them away too. Under a shed will be tough. Maybe a smoke bomb to drive them out. Day time is normal. I see them along the highway a lot eating stuff. On a porch is not normal.

it's definitely not normal !

it could have rabies or even distemper...

they normally hide from humans

it may be a squirrel the more I look at it. maybe a very small woodchuck, baby size.

Maybe its a dag gum muskrat. Sorry I luved this cartoon growing up. Can you tell I am sleep deprived fishing 4 early mornings in a row. I'm loopy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6454Ef7_80

I dunno what that thing is but it don't have the face of any woodchuck I ever seen. It's got a marsupial head....

that
 

and his tail is dark brown ...which is odd

he's like a beaver without the flaptail

muskrats tails are rat like...

The face when compared to other woodchuck pictures on google images doesn't match up.The black snout and a few other features had me on a wild goose chase.

I'm sticking with squirrel

side by side beaver match
 

Paul you sound like Borris hahahaha

from rocky and bullwinkle :bl:

Baby woodchuck - bet the mama is near by

nice beaver:love:

here's a mugshot

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whats the tail look like adam?

Go survivor man on its ass and set some snares.

only good woodchuck is a dea........aw nevermind!:nailem:

It could be ill tempered:hee:

chupacabra

It's a woodchuck

marmota monax = woodchuck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog

As stated above - it is a juvenile. Older ones get white around their snout. They can wipe out a garden pretty quick.

.22 HP short should do it. ;) Very fatty meat and gamey. I rather eat beaver! :D Muskrats aren't bad either, but tree rats are tastier. Sewer brains ...... LOL. I got ya on that one, huh?! :P

no! make a blow gun out of a lamp
and make a poison dart
:nopics:
of chicks

then there's blowgun fishing

thats always fun :)
http://www.geocities.com/blowgunhunter/fish-pix.html

even without rabies and distemper these things are usually pissy if you catch them off guard....and epically a mother with babies around...

Any mammal can get rabies. Most rabid animals I have seen just look like they have had way to much to drink. There was a wave of rabies on the cape a few years ago. was menaced by an otter that tested positive for the virus. Seen many many sick racoons.

platyweasel.

Wombat...:huh:

Can't be a beaver...there's tons near my house and none of 'em are that furry...:smokin:

This one taunted my wife for a couple weeks before I got him last year....then....ANOTHER ONE MOVED IN a few weeks later. I trapped both and let them go 10 miles away in a heavily wooded area. Both fell for fresh brocolli. I told my wife to get some fresh brocolli to bait the trap......she proceeded to buy 3 heads :fishslap: Check him out sitting on the deck....

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../woodchuck.jpg


http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2.../P5180176b.jpg

Then I had to do this to my deck.....dug down a foot and angled the screening 90 degrees so they can't dig under.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ator/mesh3.jpg

fyi
 

both woodchuck and squirrel are correct. woodchucks belong to the group of rodents called "ground squirrels". chipmunks, prariedogs, marmots etc....