| Archive for scabies.myfreeforum.org Southern California Arachnid, Bug, Invertebrate, Entomological Society |
| Steven |
Have strange rodent like creature... 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 |
Might be an escaped exotic pet.... | ||||
| Steven |
Thought occurred to me. Pondering trapping the little beast, but I dont want to f-up its life if it has young. But, if its some exotic...thats another story. |
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| What |
Can you setup a webcam to try and get a photo of it? | ||||
| noexcuse4you |
Did it look like this?
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| WBurke17 |
LOLOLOLOLOLOL | ||||
| Steven |
gonna try capturing it with a camera. I gotta get a new usb camera though...that would be the way to go.
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| Celeste |
Not a possum, is it? If you can post a picture, *someone* here can almost certainly identify it.
-- C |
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| lizmotobike |
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? | ||||
| BugMom |
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 . . . | ||||
| Johnny |
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 |
Johnny and BugMom: could you post links to images of packrats and tree rats? | ||||
| Johnny |
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. 
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| WBurke17 |
Target practice 
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 |
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... | ||||
| WBurke17 |
maybe its a juvi Bigfoot... Call a news conference!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||||
| ~Abyss~ |
el chupacabra. | ||||
| BugMom |
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 |
Possum pix:
http://www.opossum.org/ |
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| noexcuse4you |
Maybe it was this?
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| Steven |
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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| Steven |
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. | ||||
| Steven |
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. 
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| Jules |
This sounds exactly like Roof Rats!  You cannot imagine how much noise those creatures can make. Roof Rats can also climb straight up ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!
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| ftorres |
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 |
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| balam |
Coatimundi? Young ones are pretty adventurous!
Used to have a couple as a kid in Acapulco and they certainly can look like rats with furry tails while young, prehensile tail may make it look like a monkey too... I say we prepare a hunt for the mystery creature... and eat it with some guacamole... wait, Acapulco flashback, sorry. |
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| Matt Kogler |
Ahhhh Kyle your too funny dude... Friggin Ewoks...::lol:: !!!! 
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| Steven |
Update ...
http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/sutra25879.php#25879 |
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