A Mole?

So it's been pretty cold (-25 windchill) the last couple days, so I decided to park the Durango garage overnight.

I pull it out yesterday and walk back into the garage and I see a mole wiggle away underneath some lawn furniture I have stacked in the corner. I know it wasn't a mouse because it was slow, mice dart away. It's was also black and had a tiny tail.

Is it common for moles to take refuge inside for the winter? Even living on a farm I never saw that.

Perhaps a shrew?

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a shrew. Those are usually small and brown. This was about 3 inches long and blackish.

Vole... or a scrawny black rat.

I'm more or less ignorant to the ways of the wild, but I am somewhat familiar with moles. That said, I ain't never seen one above ground, unless it was in a dogs mouth.

If it is a mole, that is just odd.

+1 on a vole. They used to get into my ex's house once in awhile. Fun for the cats, who loved to chase them around and catch them, but rarely kill the damn things so they'd always get away.

Our outside cat is mostly retired now, at 15 years of age, but she had a line on baby moles. She was always bringing them home. She went on one final killing spree about a year and a half ago, killing something every day, then I think she retired.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Vole. I have experience with them. It had a stubby little tail and it wasn't fast at all. I probably could have caught it if I hadn't had all the lawn furniture in the way.

Gopher?

Cochamouse?

Avogadro?

Honey Badger?

Chupacabra?

Meadow Vole is my guess. Microtus pennsylvanicus. It is the most common rodent in the north east anyway. Most mice as you mentioned are much faster.

snipe.

Landshark!

Woody wrote: Avogadro?

Isn't he responsible for some really big number?

Capabara?

Drop bear!

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Honey Badger?

I've been trying to convince the wife to let me.have one of these. They're giant ferrets, only meaner, and smarter. There's a documentary on Netflix about one called stoffel. Stoffel and his girl hammy are the coolest pets ever.