# I saw an animal yesterday

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 15, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-an-animal-yesterday/426516 "2007-11-15T09:47:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-an-animal-yesterday/426516/42 "2007-11-17T09:47:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth]  
There are dogs who climb chain-link fences? :eek:  
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I had a friend whose corgi would climb the fence every day.

**jillscott8763** ,

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> Originally Posted by picunurse  
> It was light, reddish brown, about twice the size of an average house cat. It had a round body and very short legs. It’s ears were small and tight to it’s head. The tail was either very short or nonexistent. I saw it climbing our chain link fence (very quickly, I might add) so I didn’t get a good look at the snout.  
> It climbed the fence then jumped from the top, about 5 feet.
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> The only animal I’ve ever seen that looks anything like it, was Punksatony Phil in Groundhog Day, but since I live in the Pacific Northwest, I’d be surprised if it was a groundhog.
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> Any guesses?

If it was a house cat, it shouldn’t have been able to walk, much less climb a fence.

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**Author:** ![jillscott8763](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jillscott8763](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jillscott8763)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-an-animal-yesterday/426516/43 "2007-11-17T09:54:25Z")

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[QUOTE=picunurse]  
I had a friend whose corgi would climb the fence every day.

**jillscott8763** , If it was a house cat, it shouldn’t have been able to walk, much less climb a fence.  
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But if it were a corgi, it could climb the fence?

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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-saw-an-animal-yesterday/426516/44 "2007-11-17T10:16:13Z")

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[QUOTE=jimmmy]  
A [Woodchuck](http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Marmota_monax.html) is the biggest Marmot in the PNW and can and does climb stuff (behavior in the cite) and can look reddish and “groundhoggy” as well.  
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Dang, I see those all the time in Wenatchee. I always call them “rock doggies”, cuz I always see them hanging out in the rocks next to the Columbia River. I think I’m unique in using that nomenclature, though, as most people around here call them groundhogs or marmots.

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