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Giant rat?
From:
Tracy Walker
City:
Easton
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IL
Living in our shed is what i call a giant rat about the size of a opossom but brown with a scaly tail i know it isn't a beaver though. Any ideas??
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Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
Are you near water? Possibly a muskrat.
From:
Tracy Walker
City:
Easton
,
IL
No i don't but we do have a small strech of woods and large drainage ditches all around which ocassinaly flood after a heavy downpour.
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Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
If you take a picture I can ID the animal for you. But if you have drainage ditches nearby, I'm almost sure that it is a muskrat.
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