Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, December 16, 2011

The Water Rat

These photos were taken with a pocket camera, a Canon A1000.


This is possibly its home:



The photos were taken from a bridge over the waterway of the swamp. Only the need to try to keep some of the New York City watershed intact protected the swamp from being completely drained decades ago. NYC does not filter its drinking water, the watershed does that.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

What is that? A muskrat? Or something mustilid? It looks rather like a fisher...or mink?

In any case, it made me go "Squeeee" cause it reminds me of the pet ferrets...

bmq215 said...

Looks like a mink to me. Too small for a fisher and the water suggests that it's not a marten. Either way, it's definitely part of the weasel family.

jbrock said...

Yeah, I'm guessing a mink. Cute little critter.

Anonymous said...

I couldn't get any really good idea of scale...thus my wondering about a fisher. It does remind me of the small wild weasels we have here, in body shape and attitude. But it is far darker and larger than those.

The New York Crank said...

Never mind cooing over it. Just shoot it and drain the swamp so the gas guys can frack out the bedrock. I mean, that's what they're pushing for, isn't t?

Yours crankily,
The New York Crank

Eck! said...

Looks like muskrat to me. Though minks are common there too.

Eck!