Unidentified creature captured on camera in Ritter Park, West Virginia

[UM-Bot]

Brittany Keller had been driving through the park recently when she spotted something she'd never seen there before.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382266/unidentified-creature-captured-on-camera-in-ritter-park-west-virginia

[Abramelin]

10 minutes ago, UM-Bot said:

Brittany Keller had been driving through the park recently when she spotted something she'd never seen there before.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/382266/unidentified-creature-captured-on-camera-in-ritter-park-west-virginia

Easy: an escaped coati.

Not an African animal at all.

[Buzz_Light_Year]

It's a fox or a small coyote and a mangey one at that.

[Jon the frog]

Manged racoon ?

 

 

Edited November 7 by Jon the frog

[MysteryMike]

Escaped coati or raccoon with mange. Nothing to see here move along.

[Antigonos]

Probably not the oddest thing you’ll see in West Virginia.

[Kenemet]

2 hours ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

It's a fox or a small coyote and a mangey one at that.

Yep.  Exactly what I thought when I saw it.  Classic canine profile.

[Kenemet]

1 hour ago, Jon the frog said:

Manged racoon ?

 

 

Looks like it, yes, from the face shape and the coat pattern.

[Resume]

It's got something wrapped around its neck, which might explain the emaciation.  Our garbage is everywhere.  Sucks.

[Abramelin]

2 hours ago, Kenemet said:

Yep.  Exactly what I thought when I saw it.  Classic canine profile.

The tail is much too long for any canine.

[+OverSword]

5 hours ago, Buzz_Light_Year said:

It's a fox or a small coyote and a mangey one at that.

My first thought was coyote but the tail is too long.  I've never seen a fox IRL so maybe?

[Piney]

5 hours ago, Antigonos said:

Probably not the oddest thing you’ll see in West Virginia.

When you see a Buckwheat Festival Queen in the 1970s.....

You can't unsee it.😬

What's worse is my cousin Dalyn woke up with one after a Morgantown bender........woof. 🥴

[Nicolette]

I vote coatimundi

Edited November 8 by Nicolette

[Amorlind]

7 hours ago, Nicolette said:

I vote coatimundi

Agreed. Looks very like it.

[Oniomancer]

22 hours ago, Abramelin said:

The tail is much too long for any canine.

21 hours ago, OverSword said:

My first thought was coyote but the tail is too long.  I've never seen a fox IRL so maybe?

[jethrofloyd]

mongoose. 😶  

[Abramelin]

5 hours ago, jethrofloyd said:

mongoose. 😶  

Too small.

[PinkLemonade]

I think its a Coati.

[+Hammerclaw]

Looks like a Fisher with the mange.

[Piney]

16 minutes ago, Hammerclaw said:

Looks like a Fisher with the mange.

They're like hens teeth here.

I have one mating couple in the whole damn 800 acres and Maggie had one "pass through" her 150 acre forest in Salem County. 

[jethrofloyd]

Chupacabra? 

[Abramelin]

On 11/8/2024 at 5:30 PM, Oniomancer said:

Hmmmm...

[+Hammerclaw]

5 hours ago, Piney said:

They're like hens teeth here.

I have one mating couple in the whole damn 800 acres and Maggie had one "pass through" her 150 acre forest in Salem County. 

One was spotted in the Smoky's a while back, although they're not officially listed as present.

[MissJatti]

Again whats with the crappy pixels. Did she use a 2005 camera phone?