what kind of animals are these? - DSC00492

Paul & Katie Blake: guinea pigs?

noromdiam: After a google search, these seem to be Pocket Gophers:

Thomomys mazama
www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/collections/mammalogy/mamw…

sean dreilinger: dang iwei, thanks for the research. there were about a dozen of them on the lawn at the kaiser permanente office, and they weren't bothered by me until i was a few feet away. maybe that's why they're a species of concern.

miss.love: so they can just go out on the front lawn and pick out some test subjects. how CON-VEEN-IENT!

Neeta Lind: these are gophers, bill murray and I hate them. where's my hose?

miss.love: you mean “varmints”?