I Have Discovered a Creature In My Backyard!!

It's a beautiful day here. 60 degrees, sunny, just great. Good day for the dogs to hang outside while I while away my day online (just kidding-I never do that) Now, everyone knows dogs like people better than being outside alone, so naturally Mr. Pants, needy as he is, wanted to be with his mama, but the Eemis stayed, down by The Bush That Ate the Yard, sniffing and snorting. I didn't know why the boobie dog didn't want to come back in, but I didn't really think twice about it until I looked out the kitchen window, and lo and behold, there was a CREATURE! He was tiny. He was brown. HE. WAS. SCUTTLING. There really is no other word for it, and right there in broad daylight. And the wildest part is that Carmen didn't notice that he was in the lawn, and not by the bush where she was keeping her deadly vigil.

And so after putting the dogs back in the house, I did what any red-blooded American girl would do: I went outside and poked it with a stick. My yard creature jumped, scuttled VERY quickly, and buried himelf under a tuft grass. I think I have determined he is a rodent of some sort. He is still there I think, or somewhere nearby. I am conducting a poll: What is the creature in the yard? And what shall we call him? (Yard creatures need names, of course.)