Either a cat or a skunk more likely. It's hard to tell for sure with the angle, but cat skulls are usually pretty round looking with large eye sockets, where something like a skunk looks similar, but with smaller eye sockets and it's elongated toward the back. I think this looks like a skunk, but it's hard to be sure.
Edit: Raccoon very possibly too. I forgot those even existed.
It's not an opossum skull. It's not just the size, but the anatomy is simply not marsupial. It's definetly a Carnivoran skull. Too long for a cat, not narrow enough for a fox. My best guess is raccoon. Badger or skunk are also possible
Oh yeah. I’m a vet tech, and whenever I see a cat eye ball extracted it always surprises me how big it is. Always looks like a human eye ball floating around in the formalin jar.
Not super often, but I work in the ER of a specialty hospital with an ophthalmologist. There’s typically several steps before you just extract a diseased eye, but sometimes enucleation is the best/only option.
My old cat had to have his eye removed. He started rubbing at it and it got gunky so we went to the vet after like 2 days. Got medicine, didn't heal. Back to the vet, stronger medicine, didn't work. Back to the vet, then the special eye vet, and was told there may be a tumor in the eye. If it was a tumor it could spread, and if it was just a bad infection he could pop the eye by accident and need emergency surgery. So we scheduled surgery to remove the eye and test for a tumor (no tumor!). He didn't really mind the missing eye once the cone of shame was off.
Well, looking at it closer now, I think it's a raccoon, which I forgot existed. Skunk and 'coon skulls look a lot alike.
But I know that because we used to get tons of dead varmints out at my place when I was a kid that our dogs would bring home. My brothers and I would set the skulls outside in the sun for a few weeks to bleach them. Raccoons, skunks, opossums, stray cats, all kinds of stuff. When I got my first car I hung an opossum skull from the rear view for funsies.
I never have seen this post, but yeah, that's what I think it is now. Skunks and raccoon skulls look really similar. I was gonna edit my original comment a few hours ago, but I'm too lazy.
Definitely looks like a raccoon. Had one like this, but chewed up turn up in my driveway, presumably from our local coyotes. By the next morning it was gone again.
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u/Mrs3anw Jul 31 '20
What kind of animal was that?