Name that Critter

Well we aren’t asking for his name, we just don’t know what kind of critter this is!

 

Difficult to get a size perspective. Big enough to be a groundhog?

 

Maybe a little bigger than a groundhog and they aren’t black around here.

 

You didn’t win, but you will get a case of Rice A Roni for playing the game, Rice A Roni, the San Fransico Treat!

 

Do you have a pond or creek nearby??

 

Yes, we have a pond with 400’ of the house.

 

Hmmm...Then I will guess Miniature Loch Straw Monster!!

Seriously though...Maybe Otter (but I see no tail) or Muskrat??

 

Weasel.

 

That's not nice, Jack Straw seems like a good guy to me!

 

No he’s right!

 

A tail would've been helpful. I know of racoons that their tails freeze off during real cold snaps but even those end up with a bob tail.

Looks like this critter had nothing for a tail. Looks some like a fisher but again, no tail.....

 

It’s the same color of a Fisher but they have a very distinct hop when they move.

 

Right. Unless moving slow.

Do you know what it is?

 

How high up is that camera? Hard to have a perspective. Otters, weasels and the like have a "peculiar" walk/stride movement...yo me the animal in question doesnt have "that walk". Can you put an object of a known size (perhaps a 5 gallon bucket) in the area for reference in case you get it on camera again?

 

Transplanted "Alabama Porch Monkey" ?????

 

I'm going to have that jingle stuck in my head now.......

 

No, we have no idea

 

Where it makes the turn, there is a white rock or something. How big is that? Should help size the beast from that scale.

 

Well, if it’s a cat it’s pretty big!