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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

Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)
3. Possum
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 07:36 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.

Quakerfriend

(5,655 posts)
8. Hi Ellen 😃
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 07:38 PM
Aug 2021

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

elleng

(136,071 posts)
12. I'm voting for opossum,
Wed Aug 18, 2021, 07:43 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.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,763 posts)
22. It looks like an aurochs, thought to have gone extinct hundreds of years ago.
Thu Aug 19, 2021, 04:17 AM
Aug 2021

This could be quite a discovery!

Or a pig?

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