Need some help here, People! Megster thinks these guys are gerbils. I…dunno. I do know they are at this very minute trying to steal my soul with their totally adorabuhl little bods. I mean, get real. We’ve got snouts, we’ve got leetle teeny feet n’ tails, closed eye capsulz, The Works. You see what we’re up against…this is serious stuff. So, let’s play Name That Critter!
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Oh! I know. They are tiny-cute-fuzzies. ^_^
wisdom iz here.
Capybara?
Hey Stevie ,what were you snorting ??? Capybaras are about 100 lbs !!!
If that’s a Capybara……that is one BIG pencil.
mini-capyees
microcapites
minibaraios
capybarritos
Don’t go much further —-no, no, not the capiburrito thing.
I would have to go with gerbil pups (or gerbilettes…gerbilitas? Gerbilchen?). It’s the ears (or seeming lack thereof).
Signed,
Well, what do I know?
Gerbilchen. Definitely.
Don’t forget the wheeskères.
I vote gerbuhls too because of the longish tailio. What’s up with the no ears?!
all I know is those wheeskers have done. me. in.
PS: What do I call them? Hors-d’oeuvres!
I was thinking brownie bites! Got milk?
Little tiny, tiny gerblios for sure!
They are prairie dog pups and are the cutest I’ve seen so far.
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That is exactly what they are! You beat me with the post.
They look more like degus…but whatever they are, they are soul-destroyingly cute!
I cheated and went over to their page and found LOTS of adorable pics. They’re baby gophers!!
I was going to say baby dormice or field mice, but I think you are right. Lots of fur to keep them warm while they dig up the lawn!
I was gonna say prairie dogs, but close enough!
I was going to say voles. I’m not sure what a vole actually looks like, but it was as good a thing to suggest as any.
It’s a mousie of some kind. A Dormouse, perhaps?
That was going to be my guess too ,Bonny !!! Doormice !!!
Feet have fur, tails have fur (I think) = gerbilios! Or kangaroo rats. Mice have naked feets and naked tails.
They look like the baby field mice that I found nested inside my automatic water sampler in a salt marsh.
A who in the what now?? And I imagine the Salt-ometer swung WAYYY into the sweet when they moved in!
i was gonna say mole but gophers make sense with the wide schnhoz
I’m am going with gerbbbeeeeellllsss as well. I think their little ears lie down when they are young.
behbe prairie dogs
prairie pups! at least that’s what they look like to me.
Gah! It’s the Coast & Canyon Wildlife Rehabbers again… bless their souls!
Dear Lord don’t let them be gophers ! I’m currently in a battle with them in my yards & my hubby would kill me if I told him they were cute !!! Granted it’s not much of a battle since all I do is flood the mound when one pops up but I can”t bring myself to set out traps or poisons. And I keep hiding the moth balls when my hubby brings them home . (Shhhhh ! don’t tell the hubby that either. it’ll be our little secret ‘K?)
oh for shame!
(do the mothballs or flooding actually help? cuteness is destroying my entire yard!)
My enemy, my foe, is an animal. In order to conquer the animal, I have to learn to think like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I’ve gotta get inside this guy’s pelt and crawl around for a few days. Who’s the gopher’s ally? His friends. The harmless squirrel and the friendly rabbit…..
i was gonna say baby ratties from a lab clone which grows into Black Rats, the beginning of a new series of X Files. now i have no ideer…
I know what they are, they are the embodiment of cute!
Prairie dogs!
They. Are. Smaller than. The pencil!
[thud]
*hauls out the HK Defibrillator*
*plugs it in*
*tucks a Persian kitten into victoreia’s elbow*
Definitely gophers.
i really need to have a leetle neeble on them to make an educated guess….
but offhand, i’d say field mice-?
I was going to say miceys until I read through the comments and found out they are baby gophers. I didn’t know baby gophers were this cute!
baby capybara?
Come on ,Trisha , get real !!! I worked with capybaras !!!
“real”??? Are there any advantages, to getting “real”???
Signed,
We are at CUTE overload, y’know
These look like vole pups… not sure if prairie vole or field vole.
Do leetle voiles have so much furriness? Even grown-up type voles are teeny and look like they are not wearing any clothes…er, um, fur.
There are a lot of voles around my house. My daughter is constantly catching baby voles in the spring (and letting them go unharmed, of course). They are furry. These definitely do look like voles, but the color is off. The ones near my house are usually dark grey…even the babies. I don’t know if they come in other colors or not.
They do come in brown…so my vote is definitely vole.
My immediate thought upon seeing them was gopher. I’m gonna stick with that.
They are extremely cute!
I know! They’re prairie-vole-field-dog-gopher-mice-otter beans!
that works pretty well!
Baby ROUS’s!!!
So that’s what they look like!
There’s not a single scientist in the bunch of you peeps. Hand them over to me and my scientists and staff of Animal Identifiers at Cute Overload Overlook, and we shall identify them and I promise to return them immediately. If not sooner. I will NOT keek them. Really.
I vote Gerbs. Compare vs my gerb bebeh pics: http://erroraccessdenied.com/image/tid/670 (click pics to embiggen).
For example: http://erroraccessdenied.com/files/images/sleepy.preview.jpg
those are some shiny baby gerbys!
I was sure they were baby gerbs. But now that I know they are gophers I can see the differences. Baby gerbils are so cute–we need some to show up here!
Dormouse (dormice?)
Kangaroo Rats…. babies
Awwwww. Yer classic baby Pencil Gophers. (Not to be confused with a Pen Gopher. Totally different animal…)
They are so NOT gophers or prairie dogs people. Have you never seen a baby gerbil? We spend alot of time looking at hams and they are so different. Gerbils people. Do not drown nor poison them, please.
it’s okay. i tried and just ended up with a wet laptop.
They are totally meadow voles!!!! ^_^
gopher. i’ve seen them in my yard and when hiking.
My gerbil had babies and they looked like that. Look at the long furry tails.
All I know is that I don’t have any of those adorabuhl furry critters in my hand. None. Zero. Zip. *waaaaaah*
I SAY (with NO knowledge whatsoever) something in the direkshon of chipmunks.
I am guessing baby Degu’s. Similar to gerbils but bigger
I think those cuties look like baby groundhogs.
Looks like gerbil babies to me. I don’t know though. I’m not sure their hind peegs are big enuff.
They look like baby Gerbils to me.
I think they’s prairie dog babies
Okay Guys – can somebody finally tell us what theese little guys are ???
NTMTOM ? BRINKE ? PYRIT ? Please help !!!
Gophers. From Coast and Canyon Wildlife Rehab. They’re FB page is AWESOME!!!!!
Dag it — “their” not “they’re.” I got too excited.
Bob and Sue, and they are baby Gerbils?
They are not Gerbils – I’ve bred enough of them. They don’t have the white belly that a white bellied Agouti would have. You cannot get brown bellied Gerbils.
I’d say they’re some sort of vole judging by the placement and shape of their ears.
i think they’re baby shrews! we’ve had shrews on our campground before and they look pretty similar. I could be wrong, though!