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Subject: Raccoons without tails?
From: TinGA posted Fri, Oct 30 2009, 3:16pm 
I was reading a thread about raccoons without tails. I am in a suburb N of Atlanta, GA. We have a family of raccoons with tails that many of the families have seen. Last night, I thought I had two gray cats on the porch until they turned around. I thought they were raccoons, but they have a pointed snout. As one writer posted, these do not have the mask bands of raccoons either. Then I though it was our possum that roams around. The body was fluffy and shaped like a koala, not the body of the possums at all. And, it had a stub tail exactly as described on here. I grew up in IL near lots of farm ground. This is not a mutilation. It wiggles like that of a bear. Within a few minutes it was joined by another. Same snout, same tail. They are gray/blackish and large, about 20 pounds. Twice the size of our male cat. I looked around animal sites today. The face was the face of a coati from South America, but they all have tails, too. I am going to try and get pictures. A most interesting goul for our Halloween tomorrow night! If anyone can shed any further light, we would be most interested. In the meantime, I will keep watching.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Odagled posted Sat, Oct 31 2009, 1:06pm 
I was looking this up but found something of some animal called the tree wolf which relates to your description of the critter you saw but i cant find pictures or more information on it.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Odagled posted Sat, Oct 31 2009, 1:07pm 
False alarm. It I found info on it and it looks more like a squirel
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: TonyCannon posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 12:29pm 
I think the tree wolf is related to the timber tiger.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Odagled posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 1:26pm 
Never heard of it it's a first for me to hear of a treewolf
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: TonyCannon posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 1:58pm 
Timber tigers are really vicious.

Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Odagled posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 6:23pm 
Looks like a chipmunk with a longer tail. Thanks for the picture
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: TonyCannon posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 7:10pm 
It's just a cute nickname for a chipmunk, same as tree wolf for a squirrel.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: luna1580 posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 3:38am 
this makes me curious: plump, gray, "tailless" & mask-less "coons"? who are not possums or cats or squirrels?

please add any additional details to your sighting, thanks.

are you sure that they couldn't be an unpublicized color-morph of bobcats? or a weird wild-breeding pop of short tailed house cats? interesting.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: KodiakKeith posted Sun, Nov 1 2009, 6:43pm 
Like this?

Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: luna1580 posted Mon, Nov 2 2009, 12:52am 
good call! i knew it would be a known critter, it's just a matter of which one......
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Rainbow Medicine Man posted Mon, Nov 2 2009, 3:03pm 
Whatitit?
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: KodiakKeith posted Mon, Nov 2 2009, 3:31pm 
It's a groundhog. They get up into the 20-30 pound range and are common over most of the US.

I don't know if this is what the poster saw or not. It fits the description, but they haven't confirmed this as the animal.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: kittenz posted Tue, Nov 3 2009, 1:01pm 
Surely no one would mistake a groundhog for any kind of raccoon or coati? Groundhogs have a pretty noticeable tail too.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: KodiakKeith posted Tue, Nov 3 2009, 1:12pm 
The description says it has a stubby tail. It looks like our poster is a hit-and-run, so we'll probably never know.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: luna1580 posted Wed, Nov 4 2009, 11:02pm 
"no one" is a broad call. just browse youtube and you'll see all kinds of normal bugs and critters noted by the poster as "this weird [monster/f-cking] thing!!!!" -and from the candid audio it's plain most are totally serious.

never dismiss the general publics' lack of knowledge of "common" critters"..... (and plants. and where vegetables come from. but that's another tale...).
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Tsu Fho Nimh posted Mon, Nov 2 2009, 6:47pm 
Also called "woodchuck", and common in the Atlanta area. It's a major garden pest because of the burrows it makes and the enormous quantities of vegetables it eats.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Rainbow Medicine Man posted Wed, Nov 4 2009, 10:35am 
"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck,
if a woodchuchk could chuck wood?"
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: MikeK posted Wed, Nov 4 2009, 4:06pm 
A woodchuck, would chuck, as much wood, as a woodchuck, could chuck, If a woodchuck could chuck wood. But unfortunately, woodchucks do not chuck wood.
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: ConstantReader posted Wed, Nov 4 2009, 4:35pm 
Then why are they called woodchucks? Hmmm?
Subject: Re: Raccoons without tails?
From: Adder posted Fri, Nov 6 2009, 9:57pm 
touch'e


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