Weirder and Weirder

Ok, I've grown used to slowing down or stopping my car for groups of deer crossing the road, but yesterday on the way to work I saw something I'd never seen in real life before.

A small furry object with a high rounded rump and dragging something behind scurrying across the road made me slow down in curiosity. "What the heck is that!" I wondered aloud. As I got closer I was able to identify it from pictures I'd seen.

It was a beaver. He was returning to his swamp of choice after cruising the inhabited side of the road. I wonder if he was taking a break from chomping trees to raid the garbage cans across the road like his neighbors the racoons.

Weird, huh? What's next, a white rabbit in a waistcoat?