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Offline Bucktail

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Need Help Identifying This Animal
« on: July 29, 2012, 04:50:39 PM »
Can anyone identify this creature I found in one of my garbage cans?  He's still there now and he apparently likes Taco Bell. ;D

Don't think it's a cat.  Baby coyote maybe? :headscra:
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2012, 04:55:29 PM »
No idea....creepy looking though...

He's thinking outside the box at least  rofla
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2012, 04:56:31 PM »
I'd say baby racoon and you need to hose out that can :P
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2012, 04:59:00 PM »
Not a coon.  It's ears are too big.
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2012, 05:23:28 PM »
Opossum  :headscra:
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2012, 05:31:58 PM »
Yes

Watch out for the teeth
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2012, 05:36:04 PM »
Cool.. new pet t^ ;D
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2012, 05:39:36 PM »
Quote from: ChrisL on July 29, 2012, 04:56:31 PM
I'd say baby racoon and you need to hose out that can :P
I gotta 2nd this.. Bob, I think his ears look bigger because his fur is all matted down from rolling around in whatever evil broth is in the bottom of that can  >:D But you can see the rings on his tail.. which is fully furred, ruling out opossum, and while still young and not full, ,  he has the black mask around his eyes.. and his head is much more rodent than canine.. so greatly doubt coyote.. which are usually way to shy to raid garbage cans..Add that to the fact he is in a garbage can.. which is  where suburban racoons get their mail...and you get my vote  TT^    chrz
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2012, 06:02:05 PM »

And the baby opossum has a pink nose and tail as shown here
http://animal.discovery.com/guides/baby-animals/mammals/gallery/virginia-opossum.jpg
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2012, 06:07:37 PM »
I vote for greasy dirty baby racoon.
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2012, 06:19:48 PM »
 whs   A baby Mexican racoon...seems to be enjoying the Taco Bell..
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2012, 06:41:19 PM »
After releasing it I agree it was a raccoon with it's fur all matted down.  

Last night I wasn't so sure.  I got home from work around 11 last night.  Before going in the house I tossed my Taco Bell trash into what I thought was an empty garbage can.  Before it hit the bottom an utterly evil sound, like that of Beelzebub himself, came screaming out of it! >:D

Not wanting to tangle with the Jersey Devil in the dark, I went inside and actually forgot about it until this afternoon, when I went out to make another deposit in the can.

Anyway, my daughter and I freed little Lucifer into the empty lot across the street.  Man!  Did that garbage can stink!  (Worse than Taco Bell itself too)!  That coon must have crapped or puked or both.  Mixed with the rainwater from last night, it made it turn into a disgusting, smelly, frothy soup! thud

Thanks for the help guys. t^
« Last Edit: July 29, 2012, 06:42:29 PM by Bucktail »
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2012, 09:45:01 PM »
Damn Bob, the stinky stew in your garbage can is somewhat a mystery. ::)
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2012, 09:55:44 PM »
Damn. Did I lose this "pool" pawle
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2012, 10:46:34 PM »
Chupacobra had to be if he was eating mexican.
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #15 on: July 30, 2012, 08:48:08 AM »
Quote from: paul-e on July 29, 2012, 09:55:44 PM
Damn. Did I lose this "pool" pawle
That would be a first  pawle
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #16 on: July 30, 2012, 08:53:56 AM »
Looks like the dog from the commercial
 
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2012, 09:10:21 AM »
Quote from: paul-e on July 29, 2012, 09:55:44 PM
Damn. Did I lose this "pool" pawle

Sorry  pawle, you can't win them all.  I did have an opossum in my yard that gave birth in a woodpile from my demolished shed a couple years ago.  Those things are creepy too.  Especially with babies hanging on them. :P

And yes Rick.  I wouldn't have been surprised if that coon looked up at me and said, "Yo quiero Taco Bell!"

Well, I might have been a little surprised.  ;D
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2012, 07:22:44 AM »
Could have saved the juice to at to a CHUM Bucket  ;D
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Re: Need Help Identifying This Animal
« Reply #19 on: July 31, 2012, 09:16:06 AM »
Quote from: ChrisL on July 29, 2012, 04:56:31 PM
I'd say baby racoon and you need to hose out that can :P

X2 on the can clean
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