- Mar 4, 2011
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I was walking my dog in the city park- no bigger than mile by mile, surrounded by cities in NY/NJ. The trees are sparse, more or less a big grass field.
I saw this fat thing wobbling around... it's short legged and stupid slow, even my corgi caught up and didn't know what to do with it.
It's too big to be a gerbil or anything ratty.. looked to be about 15-20 lbs.
The fat round body & short legs resembled a platypus:
But none of the platypus face or webbed feet. It obviously had nothing to do with water. It's definitely not a possum, didn't have the revolting face or a long snout. The face looked like your generic hamster.
The thing quickly hid into his hole. It had an impressive network as my dog was sniffing at the much smaller vent hole and also ran after it when that thing came out on the other end 20 yards away.
WTF is it?
I saw this fat thing wobbling around... it's short legged and stupid slow, even my corgi caught up and didn't know what to do with it.
It's too big to be a gerbil or anything ratty.. looked to be about 15-20 lbs.
The fat round body & short legs resembled a platypus:

But none of the platypus face or webbed feet. It obviously had nothing to do with water. It's definitely not a possum, didn't have the revolting face or a long snout. The face looked like your generic hamster.
The thing quickly hid into his hole. It had an impressive network as my dog was sniffing at the much smaller vent hole and also ran after it when that thing came out on the other end 20 yards away.
WTF is it?