Fun with Misidentified Critters

[Phred52]

I received one on email that was from (naturally) California. Seems someone found someone elses 'cat'. Posters gave a description of the animal as well as an observation that the 'cat' was very unfriendly towards humans as it "must've been abused". It then showed a picture of a snarelling possum that was being held up for the photo!! WHERE ELSE BUT??? Phred52

[JayinMN]

[paul pachowicz]

Several years ago we went to Wisconsin for a family reunion and I took along a Jack-alope as a present for a dear ol uncle. During the doings I presented him with it. All the cousins, nieces, nephews, etc got a good laugh out of it. Later, my aunt ( the wife of my uncle who is kinda like Edith Bunker) saids to me, "that was really nice of you to give that to John but, those must be really small animals". Talk about getting laughs!!!! However, I did take the time to explain to her what a Jack-Alope is. Kinda like a story "you hadda be there"

[stealth3350]

watch out for snow snakes this time of the year!

[pumper317]

A long time ago my mom dad and i were driving around our old cabin. A deer ran accross the road and stopped in the woods on the other side. We slowed down and were looking for it, and all of a sudden my mom yells "there is is looking at us, see the neck!" She kept on for a little while as my dad and i laughed. she got confused and asked what was wrong. That's when we told her she was looking the deer right in the eye, and not the one one its face. Quite funny! Gotta love the mom stories!

[Dave S]

That's when we told her she was looking the deer right in the eye, and not the one one its face. Quite funny! Gotta love the mom stories!

The deer must have winked at her!

[upnorthozzy]

When I was young a couple of buddies thought they bagged an albino grouse in Pillsbury state forest. They picked up their prize put it in the car and drove off. They had only gone a couple hundred yards when they got to a house and the yard was full of white chickens.

[icehousebob]

I like it when kids get critter names mixed up. When my daughter was little, I took her fishing where there were Perch and Crappies. She couldn't keep them straight and they all became Poppies.

Ice fishing on Mille Lacs with my #3 son at about age five. We had been catching Walleyes and Tulibees. He came into the fishhouse crying because he had missed a big Wallaby.

[benbosh]

This summer in my hometown there was a dead skunk on one of the streets on the edge of town (its actually gravel but turns into tar closer to houses). So this skunk has been sitting there for a couple days then one morning I drove past it on my way to work and i was on my way home a few hours later and someone made a sign out of beer boxes that said "FREE CAT" with an arrow pointing down to it