4/29/2011

What is this?

So if you can figure out what this is....you win the science prize (yet to be figured out as well). Hint: it eats the tops of my onions and my mums (grrrrr) And he ran like heck when I came out and told him to stop.




and I thought mice were bad. Big over grown rodent thing.

11 comments:

wendys said...

rock chuck?

Jangs said...

I figured it out. It is a groundhog!....Where is Bill Murray when you need him?

Emma Jo said...

I was totally going to say "beaver without a tail" or "big over grown rodent thing". Your answer makes more sense, let's go with that. Maybe you could borrow Grandma's BB gun or slingshot.

Julie said...

It's a mutated gopher/rock-chuck hybrid--- descended from rodents that live too close to the Nuskin factory.

michaelstubbs said...

Marmot was my guess, but they are a cousin to the ground hog. Ugly little fella.

SP said...

You should set up a trap and then keep him in it as an example to all his friends that come around.

Jangs said...

He made the mistake of going in my neighbor's garage. She called animal control and I think he won't be around again. He didn't know how nice we were.. Pushed his luck too far

Anonymous said...

The neighbor, Sherry Page, said animal control called it a "yellow-bellied marmot" or a strange exotic creature called a "rock chuck".

Anonymous said...

Wikipedia says:

The groundhog (Marmota monax), also known as a woodchuck, or in some areas as a land-beaver, is a rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots. Other marmots, such as the yellow-bellied and hoary marmots, live in rocky and mountainous areas, but the woodchuck is a lowland creature. It is widely distributed in North America and common in the northeastern and central United States. Groundhogs are found as far north as Alaska, with their habitat extending southeast to Alabama.[2]

Jangs said...

Wendy wins as first to post the right answer. Don't know what you won but you win. Perhaps our admiration and some ice cream when you come?

mo said...

Gopher Everet? No thanks Delbert. Half a gopher would only arouse my appetite....

Don't know why that immediately came to my mind....

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