Friday, March 16, 2012

Zany

This zany pattern of paw prints crossed my driveway this morning. Are they from an opossum or a raccoon?

12 comments:

  1. I would guess Racoon, as Possums tend to put their feet together when pausing and then they sit back on their haunches. If they are the same as our Possums.

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  2. and me I wouldn't know a possum's foot from a racoon's but like the photo for zany, why are they so white?

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  3. like Lynn I wouldn't know one from the other...and I wanna know why they are white too

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  4. Hi Val,
    Looks like a Raccoon. They have long and slender toes. I'm with the rest, why are they white. Have a great day!

    Sherrie

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  5. I don't know who's feet they are, but they are awful cute! If there were bigger I would have guessed Big Foot! :)

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  6. The footprints were actually kind of tan, from the dirt on the shoulder (we don't have sidewalks in our neighborhood). I just had my little purse-cam with me and perhaps they are a touch overexposed?

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  7. The raccoon said the squirrel made the muddy footprints . . . but I wouldn't believe anyone wearing a mask.

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  8. Love the mystery left behind here!

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  9. It's a zany conversation, that's for sure. LOL! Fun pic.

    Kim
    http://kandrew2012.wordpress.com/

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  10. Having grown up in NYC, I certainly wouldn't trust my opinion, but I'm thinking raccoon (based on a vague memory of animal footprints in a Girl Scout handbook). But what was it walking in--paint?

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  11. Either way (I can't say) but I know both are present when you least expect them. I saw a mother racoon and children walking down the sidewalk in an urban development. We had opossums under our house with a nest of babies in that same neighborhood.

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  12. I like that the paw prints are so bright, like a cop show dusting for evidence. I feel like I should know what critter know but don't. Raccoon's front and back feet are quite different from each other.

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What do you think?