Boy they cover just about everything regarding the mountain beaver..."The penis is about 4.5 cm (1.8 in) in length. They do not have a true scrotum, but testes move into a position called semiscrotal during the breeding season." I think I could have lived my whole life without knowing that!

ok..lets go with Mountain Beaver..the small tail sold me...

I agree - most likely a mountain beaver

I'm with tinyviking - I vote for mountain beaver - check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_beaver

http://www.austinprobe.com/man-caught-smuggling...

could it be....

still think it is a:
woodchuck.whistelpig/groundhog- here's what they eat...

Food Habits
Woodchucks are essentially herbivores, rarely eating insects, snails, and birds' eggs. They are primarily grazers, eating the vegetative parts of plants unlike other scuirids, which feed on reproductive parts such as seeds, nuts, and flowers. Woodchucks often sit on their haunches and pull plants over with their forepaws. In early spring, when green vegetation is sparse, woodchucks may eat the bark, buds, and twigs of plants such as dogwood, sumac, black cherry, and other fruit trees. Favorite foods include grasses and forbs, clover, leaves of sassafras and other trees, and numerous herbs. Woodchucks are also partial to farm crops especially alfalfa, planted clover, corn, oats, and assorted fruits and vegetables. Daily food consumption can be as much as 0.67kg. Woodchucks are serious agricultural pests.

byproduct of the new condos ;)

Or maybe not; according to wikipedia, groundhogs are not only also known as woodchucks, and so were covered in the previous comment, but they also have tails (though my parents have a very destructive family of groundhogs in their yard, and I didn't recall seeing a tail specifically).

Sounds like a groundhog to me.

a woodchuck?
As
woodchucks learn to live in populated areas,
they have become more difficult to control. They
have few natural predators and their shy personality
makes them difficult to deal with. Around the home,
woodchucks will feed on just about any plant or
flower. Woodchucks will damage plants quickly
with this feeding. They like
to feed in the early morning and late afternoon.
However, it is common to see them lying in the sun around their burrows. There are two ways to deal with this behavior.
If they have a lot of other food available
to them, you can treat desirable plants
with a product called ROPEL. This spray tastes
terrible and will stop the woodchucks from
feeding on any treated surface.

Racoons...hate them, they have ripped the lights out of my fountain not once, not twice, but over 5 times...this is a big fountain and it cost a fortune to have it taken apart and new light put in again...I have to make sure the lights are on and running every night to stop them fro thinking the lights are a fiid source, plus they use our foutain like it is a local spa, and they are HUGE...

Manx Norway Rat???

Snallygaster!

"I used to breed guineas just down the street in my uncles panel van."

Sounds like Old Ballard to me. Ah - the good old days...

Id say its a stray guinea for sure, I used to breed guineas just down the street in my uncles panel van. We had a domestic dispute and I was forced to abandon the little critters, Im sure he is just looking for companionship and a hot meal.

CHUCACABRA!!!!!!!!! that is some funny shiz. robot master keep working on it.

It could be and probably is a mountain beaver.

Chupacabra?

A prehistoric mammal sent here from past. It's old Ballard