What kinda animal might this be ?

[OntarioHunter]

I change my vote to muskrat. Sometimes they roam small water. I remember several years ago my Lab Pearl got bit in the face by a muskrat when we were hunting pheasants along a small ditch on the edge of a pasture. Little bugger had her by the lip and wouldn't let go. I had to kick it. Boy did that shock her. She didn't even know it was there. It came out of the little patch of cattails right after her. I was concerned after the fact about rabies even though she'd been vaccinated. Turned out okay.

 

[Jc2020]

Baby Sasquatch

 

[gouch]

I'm sticking with mountain beaver. looks to small to be a porky or a beaver. Mountain beavers are the little critters that make all those holes in the ground throughout the coast range. You know the holes you drop into up to your knee while trying to sneak up on an elk. You almost never see them because they don't come out during the light of day but there are millions of them out there.

 

[OntarioHunter]

I had never heard of mountain beaver before this thread. And I was once a naturalist at Olympic Park. I think I'll agree with you. The giveaway seems to be the unusual jaw extension at the back.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I'm sticking with mountain beaver. looks to small to be a porky or a beaver. Mountain beavers are the little critters that make all those holes in the ground throughout the coast range. You know the holes you drop into up to your knee while trying to sneak up on an elk. You almost never see them because they don't come out during the light of day but there are millions of them out there.

I stepped in a few this season , always wondered what caused them

 

[Jc2020]

I had never heard of mountain beaver before this thread. And I was once a naturalist at Olympic Park. I think I'll agree with you. The giveaway seems to be the unusual jaw extension at the back.

I hadn’t heard of them either until this

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

did a quick google search on mountain beaver

Mountain Beaver - Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

 

[gouch]

I've seen three of those things in my life. The first one I had no clue what it was Thought it was some sort of mutated rat or an alien creature of some sort. It was years later that I found out what it was.

 

[kwyeewyk]

Answer yes or no questions to find out what you have.

This is the best way to figure it out, pretty hard from looking at a couple pictures.