Wierd creature found in Ontario

[tb4me]

An Ontario First Nations community has released pictures of a strange, rat-like creature that a dog pulled from a local creek earlier this month.

 

http://news.sympatico.ctv.ca/home/contentposting?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&showbyline=True&date=true&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20100521%2fmystery-creature-ontario-100521

[BillM]

It's a Liger!

[Dave Bailey]

A quick check of the dentition should clear it up.

[BillsTheBassMan]

Hmmm,

 

Looks a little suspect, but I guess it could be from cross breeding. I'm not sure if an otter can breed with a possum, but I suspect that's what it'd look like.

[limeyangler]

just looks like a muskrat or something and the hair from its face has worn away in the water...like what happens to any other creature thats been floating around the lake for a week or two.

[Nemo]

Better pics here...

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/big-trout-lake-monster-sparks-internet-speculation/article1576748/

[DRIFTER_016]

Aye Carumba!!!!

It's El Chupacabra!!!!!!

[jimmer]

It's decomposition on the face, bacteria gets into the skin and the hair slips off. The face is usually the first place this happens or around other body openings. No whiskers!

Probably a muskrat or baby otter.

[TC1OZ]

Aye Carumba!!!!

It's El Chupacabra!!!!!!

 

I second that motion! lolol.

[jedimaster]

Whatever this is obviously Big Foot

[Dave Bailey]

I'm not sure if an otter can breed with a possum,...

 

Not possible. Opossums are marsupials, otters are placentals, two entirely different classes. You would have a better chance of mating a deer with a dog, which is still impossible.

[bassman87]

It's an Atlantic.

Edited May 21, 2010 by riverfisher22

[kickingfrog]

More than 10 responses and no one has call "Atlantic". Come on what is this board coming to?

 

Easy to identify, that doesn't create buzz however.

[cram]

To me it is OBVIOUSLY an otter. Look at the face and the fur.

[bassman87]

ninja edit ftw

[irishfield]

I thought I was gonna "click" and see my mother-in-law...

[Nipfisher]

I guess I can go take down the LOST posters now. They found my precious little "Cuddles".

[muskymike]

GCD??? is that you?

[solopaddler]

I paddled through Big Trout Lake in my travels.

 

There were some pretty hideous looking local inhabitants but nothing like that.

 

[Jewelbee]

OMG!!!....Much a due about nothing....It looks like a rotted muskrat....some one will be embarrassed when this all comes to light

[solopaddler]

OMG!!!....Much a due about nothing....It looks like a rotted muskrat....some one will be embarrassed when this all comes to light

 

 

Rotted or not this doesn't look like a muskrat to me LOL!

 

[irishfield]

Looks like a Dude from Perth I use to know..

[tb4me]

ya there is no way thats a muskrat..If it were rotted it would look rotted.Decomposition looks one hell of allot worse that that. The flesh wouldn't be left intact the way it is. I'm not sure what it is but I do know its not a muskrat.

[ohhenrygsr]

It's so Cute

[solopaddler]

Local Cree know this creature as an Omajinaakoos, which roughly translates to “ugly one”.

 

Kinda like the local girl I "dated" very briefly when I was living in Kapuskasing.