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Giant rat?

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From: Tracy Walker City: Easton, 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??
	Extension Message From: 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.
	Extension Message From: 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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