This is just for fun and the only rule is: no researching. Post your guesses in the comments. Reading other people’s answers before posting your own is exactly like Hitler optional. Answer will be posted in the comments tonight.
This is just for fun and the only rule is: no researching. Post your guesses in the comments. Reading other people’s answers before posting your own is exactly like Hitler optional. Answer will be posted in the comments tonight.
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Weasel transitioning to ermine for the winter?
Is it a quoll?
Spotted quoll. I think.
I know this one… it’s an Australian critter… spotted quoll.
ANSWER TIME
This is a tiger quoll. From Wiki:
Everyone check under your sheds!
Oddly enough, we *have* had a marsupial under our shed. Not as cute, though.
Possum?
Yep. Not native to California, but someone introduced them … sometime in the 20th C., I’ve seen conflicting accounts. They’ve made themselves home. We’ve a number in the neighborhood, I don’t know how many. I like them because they’re kinda cute (if not as cute as quolls) and they eat snails. (Our garden snails were introduced too, from France, as food. Mistake.)
I went out one early morning after the giant tree fell in the backyard and there was a juvenile possum which Jade appeared to be PLAYING WITH. I was shocked. The only thing I can guess is that maybe he was playing dead and she was treating him like a toy. Schroeder was watching from the deck. I got the dogs inside and the possum beat it.
I can easily imagine a dog playing with a possum playing dead. Our and the neighbor’s dogs are nonplussed by those here, but then, I suspect sticky buns have more prey drive, and our possums are thoroughly urban. I’ve seen them hiss, but mostly, when met – at least in our yard – they just waddle away, grumbling what I think may be the possum equivalent of ‘damn kids have no respect.’