What the heck is it?

[JetGirl]

This turned up inside our fenced-in back yard.

Nobody seems to agree on what exactly it is, for one reason or another.

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Sooo...what the heck is it?

Dead thing fur

Dead thing head

Dead thing head next to .38spl brass for size reference scale

Currently tagged as "Chupacabra" until positively identified otherwise.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

That thar be the remains of an opossum!

-J-

 

[Scutter01]

Looks like a possum to me.

 

[Que]

Yep, a baby.

 

[ATM]

Baby chupacabra.

 

[JetGirl]

That was my second guess...but Google's stash of possum skull pics didn't match up with those teeth (especially in front).
Huh.

 

[JetGirl]

Double tap.

 

[adam]

Chupacabra.

Mos def

 

[Scutter01]

Mos def

 

[E5RANGER375]

That thar be the remains of an opossum!

-J-

100%

 

[Westside]

I'm joining the possum club. My uncle who runs a wildlife rehabilitation center here in IN after moving back from Norfolk VA after retiring from 30+ years of service in the navy says we have freakishly large opossums here.

 

[Bert]

that sure has well developed teeth for such a small critter.

 

[JetGirl]

that sure has well developed teeth for such a small critter.

That's ^ one of the reasons why a few people couldn't agree on the age of whatever they said it might be. (As in, "if it was a 'baby' anything...the teeth would be smaller"...

 

[Kase]

Is there such thing as midget (or little critters as they like to be called) possums?

 

[dsol]

The kids and I found the head of a rabbit in our fenced backyard one time. Little tufts of fur everywhere all around the yard... we had the great fuzzy hunter of a Lhasa Apso at the time. That dog was so fast, she kept the yard clear of rabbits, squirrels and birds up until she died at 14.

 

[singlestacksig]

possum or musk rat.. could be norway rat also..

 

[spasmo]

Is there such thing as midget (or little critters as they like to be called) possums?

Maybe it came from an opossum mill (like a puppy mill) and it's parents bred one too many times.

 

[Kase]

Maybe it came from an opossum mill (like a puppy mill) and it's parents bred one too many times.

So would it be considered a "Kentucky Possum" ?

 

[Scutter01]

GIS for "opossum mill"

 

[Bucky623]

The fur/hair looks like that of a ‘possum but the jaws are too short and the nose too round. It could be a juvenile though.

At first I thought is was a cat but the front teeth on the lower jaw on my cat are strait across from one fang to another so I don’t think it’s a cat.

<--- not my cat.