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elleng

(140,521 posts) Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:33 PM Aug 2021

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Anyone know what this is?

Critter heading toward shadows (and beach,) after sunset.

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Anyone know what this is? (Original Post) elleng Aug 2021 OP

It looks like a boar pandr32 Aug 2021 #1

That's an adorable opossum, e!! Leghorn21 Aug 2021 #2

I agree questionseverything Aug 2021 #4

MERCI!!! elleng Aug 2021 #5

I second that ID n/t dpibel Aug 2021 #7

Yup.. O'possum hlthe2b Aug 2021 #13

I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum. Arkansas Granny Aug 2021 #14

Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny! Leghorn21 Aug 2021 #15

I've encountered those eyes too many times on my back porch. Arkansas Granny Aug 2021 #19

Possum Boxerfan Aug 2021 #3

LARGE house cat. elleng Aug 2021 #6

Hi Ellen 😃 Quakerfriend Aug 2021 #8

I'm voting for opossum, elleng Aug 2021 #12

It's the newly discovered lordsummerisle Aug 2021 #9

LOLOLOLOL! elleng Aug 2021 #10

Opossum. Ocelot II Aug 2021 #11

TFG Wicked Blue Aug 2021 #16

LOLOLOLOL! elleng Aug 2021 #17

Pink Floyd concert OxQQme Aug 2021 #18

A dark, out-of-focus photo Lord Ludd Aug 2021 #20

Sure looks like a feral sow to me. marble falls Aug 2021 #21

It looks like an aurochs, thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago. JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2021 #22

Refugee from above the Mason-Dixon Line? mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2021 #23

pandr32

(13,350 posts)

1. It looks like a boar

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:34 PM

Aug 2021

Leghorn21

(13,945 posts)

2. That's an adorable opossum, e!!

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:35 PM

Aug 2021

Well, according to moi, it is!!

questionseverything

(11,186 posts)

4. I agree

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:37 PM

Aug 2021

elleng

(140,521 posts)

5. MERCI!!!

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:37 PM

Aug 2021

Now I know what to call it, if it shows up again, 21.

dpibel

(3,636 posts)

7. I second that ID n/t

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:38 PM

Aug 2021

hlthe2b

(111,108 posts)

13. Yup.. O'possum

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:46 PM

Aug 2021

Arkansas Granny

(32,134 posts)

14. I don't know about adorable, but it does look like a possum.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:55 PM

Aug 2021

Leghorn21

(13,945 posts)

15. Awww, but look at those eyes, Granny!

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #14)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 09:06 PM

Aug 2021

I melt!!

Arkansas Granny

(32,134 posts)

19. I've encountered those eyes too many times on my back porch.

Reply to Leghorn21 (Reply #15)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 10:56 PM

Aug 2021

Not adorable in my book.

Boxerfan

(2,552 posts)

3. Possum

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:36 PM

Aug 2021

About the size of a house cat?

Tail looks wrong for a boar-let us know how big it was that would help.

elleng

(140,521 posts)

6. LARGE house cat.

Reply to Boxerfan (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:37 PM

Aug 2021

Quakerfriend

(5,880 posts)

8. Hi Ellen 😃

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:38 PM

Aug 2021

At first, I would say wild boar.
But, depending on how the photo was taken, perhaps an opossum?.
😆

elleng

(140,521 posts)

12. I'm voting for opossum,

Reply to Quakerfriend (Reply #8)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:43 PM

Aug 2021

don't wanna think there's a WILD BOAR wandering around my yard!

Taken outside, ##? yards away, heading down hill toward beach (and major river,) southern MD.

lordsummerisle

(4,653 posts)

9. It's the newly discovered

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:39 PM

Aug 2021

Wild Boar Nebula.

elleng

(140,521 posts)

10. LOLOLOLOL!

Reply to lordsummerisle (Reply #9)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:41 PM

Aug 2021

Ocelot II

(126,781 posts)

11. Opossum.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 08:43 PM

Aug 2021

Wicked Blue

(8,195 posts)

16. TFG

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 09:18 PM

Aug 2021

without pants

elleng

(140,521 posts)

17. LOLOLOLOL!

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #16)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 09:20 PM

Aug 2021

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)

18. Pink Floyd concert

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 10:48 PM

Aug 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_pigs

Lord Ludd

(585 posts)

20. A dark, out-of-focus photo

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 11:06 PM

Aug 2021

marble falls

(67,661 posts)

21. Sure looks like a feral sow to me.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Aug 18, 2021, 11:11 PM

Aug 2021

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,294 posts)

22. It looks like an aurochs, thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago.

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 19, 2021, 05:17 AM

Aug 2021

This could be quite a discovery!

Or a pig?

mahatmakanejeeves

(66,441 posts)

23. Refugee from above the Mason-Dixon Line?

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Thu Aug 19, 2021, 07:37 AM

Aug 2021

Thu Aug 19, 2021: A kangaroo is on the loose in rural Pennsylvania and no one knows where it came from

Yeah, maybe not.

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