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Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

... been feeding off of my compost and entire time I thought it must be a rat. Spotted it and now I realize ive spotted it back sometime. Its a climber ...about rat/squirrel size ...but bigger frontal position nocturnal eyes..ie flatter face, more lemur like then a squirrel or rat.

any ideas?
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What · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

Might be an escaped exotic pet....
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Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

What · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:16 am Post subject:

Can you setup a webcam to try and get a photo of it?
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noexcuse4you · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:37 am Post subject:

Did it look like this?

WBurke17 · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:52 am Post subject:

LOLOLOLOLOLOL
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Celeste · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

Not a possum, is it? If you can post a picture, *someone* here can almost certainly identify it.

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lizmotobike · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:56 pm Post subject:

opossum are lemur like and of various sizes and colors. ugly as sin in a very cute way, more or less harmless and even beneficial. a very misunderstood marsupial. opossums have a very simple brain almost lizard like. do you want to borrow a trap?
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BugMom · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 208 Location: Santa Clarita

We had a packrat a couple weeks ago. It doesn't look quite like a regular rat. More like a small chinchilla. We left some "pirate gold" outside and watched it steal it. They like shiny things. Could be . . .
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Johnny · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject:

Probably a tree rat. They do look like lemurs when you flashlight them. They are nocturnal and may be in small packs of 2 - 5. They love avocado trees.

Celeste · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:55 am Post subject:

Johnny and BugMom: could you post links to images of packrats and tree rats?
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Johnny · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:36 am Post subject:

Yeah, we saw a pack rat up in the Kaweah campground. Just the way their faces look flat and lemur-like when the flashlight beam hits them.

Black Tree Rat from Google. I had some that lived or came to my avocado tree and freaked me out when I first saw them. I was told they were tree rats, i cared less, so tree rats they were to me.

WBurke17 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

Target practice Wink

I have a couple of blow dart guns and have lots of the pratice darts (no needle) and you can knock them down if your good at it..
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Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

I dont THINK its a black rat ...but maybe. Seemed so darned "monkey" like. Hope I spot it again. It climbs to the house gutters then to where? Im not sure... might have found a way into the attic. Anyway...it climbs a long plank leaning in a corner of the house...along side of which also leans a couple long conduit pipe which make noise every time the creature climbs. Many times I have heard that clanking sound in the night ...thought it was the creature, but I didnt realize that it was climbing! Thought we had a rat and thats that ...but...
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jet trail in the sunset
a long way away
cutting 'cross the horizon
at the edge of the day
and it calls Jimmy
come fly away

but I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay

yeah, I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
--James McMurtry

WBurke17 · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

maybe its a juvi Bigfoot... Call a news conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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~Abyss~ · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject:

el chupacabra.
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BugMom · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 208 Location: Santa Clarita

A picture of a packrat from junglewalk.com.
Doesn't show it here, but they have furry tails instead of bald ones like most rats.
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Celeste · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:06 pm Post subject:

Possum pix:
http://www.opossum.org/
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noexcuse4you · Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject:

Maybe it was this?

Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

Nope not an opossum, thats for certain. I deal with those buggers all the time ...actually like em around. The young get through into our backyard along with pre-teen skunks.

I hear my creature climb the plank nightly, but have not been able to catch sight of it again.
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jet trail in the sunset
a long way away
cutting 'cross the horizon
at the edge of the day
and it calls Jimmy
come fly away

but I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay

yeah, I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
--James McMurtry

Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

Well, if its an exotic... I gotta say from the quick glances Ive caught, its gotta be a Sugar-Glider ...but I never caught site of the tail at least not good enough. Sugars have such thick tails.
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jet trail in the sunset
a long way away
cutting 'cross the horizon
at the edge of the day
and it calls Jimmy
come fly away

but I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay

yeah, I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
--James McMurtry

Steven · MOD - Greenthing General Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1049

My mind must be playing tricks on me ...I WANT it/them to be whatever I saw that one night...the 1st time I saw the mysterious creature with the flattish face. BUT...now we are back to thinking we have rats ...not sure if they are black rats, norways or some other pack rat flavor ...but rats they must be ...and it does look like it has multiplied ...we have a clan of em.
Gonna have to get them out of here. Would love to retain good karma and not have to exterminate ...but jeesh, that might be darn right impossible. Rolling Eyes

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jet trail in the sunset
a long way away
cutting 'cross the horizon
at the edge of the day
and it calls Jimmy
come fly away

but I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay

yeah, I've been
too long in the wasteland
too long in the wasteland
I believe I'll have to stay
--James McMurtry

Jules · Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 718 Location: Orange County

ftorres · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

Hello All,
Sorry Kyle,
It can not be Guismo as he is still on his bed, and It can not be Wicked as he is still on his bed too.

Perhaps is my little Kinkajou or perhaps Harry (from Harry and the Hendersons) as I can find him in the back jard.

regards
francisco