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justins7
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:26am
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I can't identify this animal that's been seen lurking around my porch. I know we have skunks, groundhogs and raccoons. But this chubby guy doesn't seem to be one of those. Badger? Porcupine? Dinosaur?
Badger seems most likely, but the snout looks so different.
I'm in upstate NY.
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justins7
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:29am
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I'm trying to upload a video but it didn't work. Here's another screen shot.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:31am
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Looks almost like a raccoon to me. The night shot is prob making it so hard to Id.
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justins7
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:45am
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The tail is so small though and it doesn't have the raccoon "mask" around the eyes. And the ears are small too.
I wish I could post the video, because you can see that its gate is strange — it waddles from side to side.
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 10:57am
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Beats me but I wish my hair looked that neat!
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Nate R
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 11:09am
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Looks like a porcupine to me.
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paulz
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 11:24am
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I got a similar thing coming around too.
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KelVarnsen
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 11:42am
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Quoting: Nate R Looks like a porcupine to me.
I agree, it has to be a porcupine, but it does look pretty different.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 03:26pm
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I thought porcupine too. But by the looks of the pic it has for not quills
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SCSJeff
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 03:39pm
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I'm thinking badger too. Just googled some pictures and some look to have the same coloring on the top of the head
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justins7
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 04:58pm
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It's strange, though. This beast still doesn't quite look exactly like either a porcupine or a badger. The snout and tail are different. hmmmmm...
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hattie
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 05:21pm - Edited by: hattie
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Maybe it is a female, adult badger? It actually looks a lot like a honey badger but they are native of Africa and Asia.
Those claws on it are definitely used for digging.
Adult Female Badger
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FishHog
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 05:35pm
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Porky, you can see the white of the quills in the second picture.
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NorthRick
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 07:11pm - Edited by: NorthRick
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It does not look like the porcupines I see here in Alaska. The quills aren't long enough, especially on the head.
However, it does look like the one in the photo on this website:
https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2020/02/the-strange-lives-of-porcupines.html
Which would be in your neck of the woods. Have any chew marks in any plywood? They can be real destructive up here that way. Apparently they like the glue.
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jaransont3
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 07:21pm - Edited by: jaransont3
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Has to be a juvenile porcupine. Sure looks like it in the second picture you posted. This is from a Michigan trailcam that shows two juvenile porcupines.
The one on the left is a dead ringer for the pictures you posted.
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spoofer
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# Posted: 3 Jun 2020 09:41pm
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there are many fishers around NY these days too.
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naturelover66
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2020 06:32am
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Its a porcupine ðŸ˜
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justins7
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2020 09:22am
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It does look just like those two young lovers in the pic posted by jaransont3.
Thanks for the responses. This would be fun, if it wasn't always a challenge controlling these critters. (Every day my wife and I battle mice, chipmunks, etc.)
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Brettny
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2020 12:06pm
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Porcupines can be pretty destructive and I hope you dont have dogs.
How are you controlling the mice?
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justins7
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# Posted: 4 Jun 2020 04:43pm
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No dogs yet, though the wife wants to get one.
We've been controlling the mice with snap traps. I have heavy-duty ones that can be reused. Sealing up every hole is nearly impossible since my cabin is pretty rickety. At this point the traps seem to at least moderately control them. They are hard to beat though. I even see them outside, little grey fur balls in the grass.
I used to use poison but have stopped, since I don't want to wind up poisoning birds.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2020 08:08am
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You will never win with snap traps. If the traps are in your cabin your just baiting them in. If your not there every weekend you will never catch enough. If you dont want poison have you tried the bucket trap in a shed or out building?
Our shed was less than 1 month old before they had alreaty started making nests above the walls. I'm not there enough for snap traps. I poison in spring and fall. Not a sign of them in quite a few months. I do still see them in the woods so I'm hardly destroying the population.
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Just
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2020 09:39am
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They love OSB it’s the glue . Eat you out of house and home .
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FishHog
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# Posted: 5 Jun 2020 12:00pm
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Quoting: Just They love OSB it’s the glue . Eat you out of house and home
this is true, but I truly hate OSB and don't believe it should be used as a building material anyway. I tore all kinds of it out of our cabin when we bought it and gutted the place. Would have been easier if the porkys' had found it first.
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