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Muskrat love at Jamaica Pond
By adamg on Sat, 05/06/2017 - 6:08pm
Moby Carp has company: Jameson Brown was walking around Jamaica Pond today when he looked down and spotted this furry critter cruising towards shore.
Jameson said it appeared to be an otter - it seemed too small for a beaver and its home "seemed more otter-like too, a hole more than a lodge."
But local wildlife aficionado Jef Taylor says, no, that's a muskrat.
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How did it get there?
After all, we're not Germany, so we don't have any otterbahns.
OK, I'll see myself out ...
The preceding bad joke is now out of date
I've updated the post because Jef Taylor, who knows more about the local fauna than most people, says the critter is a muskrat, not an otter.
And they whirl and they twirl and they tango
Looks like a muskrat to me, as the tail is too thin for either a beaver or otter.
(And for readers too young to get the allusion in the subject heading, here you go.)
Looks like you are right
Confirmation comes in the form of the tweet I've linked to by somebody who knows these things.
Hank Hill-style "NAAHHHHH!!!"
Sorry, one of those songs I pretty much detested when it first came out in the daze of my yoot, and time has not much softened my contempt.
But in the Shameful Confessions Department, I will admit that I actually watched (out of morbid fascination or boredom, I guess) bits of their short-lived TV variety show. I even recall them doing "Muskrat Love," and at one point in the song there was a sequence that showed C&T in muskrat costumes cavorting with each other. I think that was pretty much it for me.
I don't hold muskrats responsible, though.
Adorable!
I love how
Adam gets so excited about anything animal related. It renews my faith in humanity. :)