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In Maine? No way!
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looks porcupine-y to me. 
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A fur bearing mammal of some sort. My educated guess of the day, but not my last.
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It’s a baby sasquatch
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Yep, or possibly a beaver. Black and white night trail cam makes it look weird, but a porcupine seems most likely. Maine isn’t know for it’s chupacabras population, though it does have it’s fair share of undead cats and dogs (thanks to Stephen King).
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That’s my brother-in-law. We’ve been wondering where he got to. They can keep him, honestly.
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Stephen King was merely reporting the facts
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It looks like a fisher to me. I see a couple a year. They are around.
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Looks like a wombat to me. . .
Invasive species!
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It can’t be El chupacabras, because in Maine they have “Eh chuppah-cah-braahs”. Yuh?
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Portland, ME is home to the Museum of Cryptozoology, which does have some Chupacabra evidence as part of it’s exhibits:
Apparently the truth is out there…in the museum.
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Maybe some distant cousin of a pukwudgie, or maybe they migrated over the past few hundred years.
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It’s a Beaver
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Its Stephen King!
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That’s a juvenile Eastern Chimera. Or it could be the the brown phase of a North American Hircocervus. Although it might be a rare sighting of a Long-Tailed Sunekosuri, come to think of it.
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An anagram of “squash cat” - but I think the picture was not one such.
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Yeah it’s pretty clearly a porcupine. When they’re young or if they leave all their quills stuck in some body they look just like that.
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Beaver with prostate issues.
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