Can you ID this dead animal?
 

So I'm sitting at the computer playing poker, when all of a sudden my daughter bursts into the room--"Daddy, there's a dead animal outside!!!!!"

Icky. I disposed of it, but I'm curious as to what kind of animal it was. It appears to be an extremely young (possibly even fetal?) rodent or other mammal. My curiosity is partly morbid, and partly because I'm wondering if there's an injured/dead mom waiting to be discovered.

If you're interested in speculating, look at the picture. (It's somewhat gross--flies had discovered it--so maybe don't look at it if you're having a snack or something.)

Looks like a baby opossum to me.

i second the possum suggestion .

a puppy?

Paws are all wrong for a canine. I vote opossum also. The tail appears prehensile.

THAT, my friends, is the WTF.

Oh, when I saw from the thread list that you were the last poster, I thought you were gonna say it was a sloth! :D

Whoa.
I don't know what type of animal that is. But it's definitely gross. :vomitblu:

I did warn you ...... :angel:

I think that's where Vienna Sausages come from.

Squirel

No. I think it's the baby from Eraserhead.

I'm not sure what it is but Applebee's serves it with fries.

I say opossum, and here is why:
The baby is fully formed but not fully developed. It has no placenta as it would if it were aborted from a mammal like a dog/cat or such. I think it probably fell out of its mother's pouch. Most likely, it had weakened and died before it came out of the pouch, as these little babies usually latch on and do not let go. Very kind of you to bury the little critter.

Hubby just walked in and said his standard answer of "chupacabra". :neutral:

What is this? Dead animal week? A similar thing happened to me. I'm doing stuff and my son comes to the door sobbing and sobbing. I finally get him talking and he said he saw something gross. What I ask?

A dead rat.

We don't have rats, we have mice. It's probably a dead mouse.

It's gross, he says, you can see under the muscle and everything.

He's 7. I don't believe him.

His brother, also 7, says Cool, can I see?

He runs out and runs back telling me the spine is sticking out.

They are 7. I don't believe them.

They finally convince me to go have a look.

Yep, it's a rat. Yep, the spine is sticking out. Weird. If it is still there I'll take a pic.