Mongoose

[cobraboy]

Wrecksum and CCCCCCCCCCCCCCologne

It was three dogs - big ones.
A team effort that trapped the little rascal.

It was in my bedroom....took off outside and kabam !!
Dead juron.

Juron or mongoose?

 

[bienamor]

Only thing I have seen or heard of Dominicans refer to as a Juron looks like the image I posted. It looks like a mongoose. never heard the solenodon referred to as a Juron but maybe so?

 

[william webster]

Juron is what they all said it was.....

Looks like a mongoose or a stretched squirrel.....

 

[Fulano2]

[video=youtube_share;GNAcFGdn1kc]https://youtu.be/GNAcFGdn1kc[/video]

Here you have a juron or huron.

 

[william webster]

Just like the video....

they're fascinated by them.....

 

[Celt202]

[video=youtube_share;GNAcFGdn1kc]https://youtu.be/GNAcFGdn1kc[/video]

Here you have a juron or huron.

They're calling it a jur?n and an ardilla (squirrel).

I think it's a mongoose and it's become part of the culture to call it a jur?n.

Whatever is correct it's a cute angry little bugger.

 

[william webster]

Can't be a squirrel with teeth like that.

 

[Xavier_Onassis]

That is not a squirrel or any other sort of rodent. It is more like a ferret or some sort of carnivore.

 

[william webster]

definitely, XO......
sharp little teeth for meat

 

[Fulano2]

There are no squirrels in RD I think.

 

[william webster]

I mean , how would they know what a squirrel looks like / is ?

Squirrels eat nuts - that little guy eats yours !!!

 

[Fulano2]

My father in law has some land and was chopping and checking his yuca about a year ago when suddenly a juron
Showed up and almost got into his pants. I have seen some lately in the Gaspar Hernandez RSJ area lately, crossing the road.

 

[Cdn_Gringo]

I've seen a couple scamper across hwy 5 near Seahorse Ranch. A friend in Lomas had his rabbits attacked and munched. They are around.

 

[wuarhat]

There are no squirrels in RD I think.

However, Dominicans do call them ardillas. I saw something from a distance in La Romana a couple of years ago that I thought was a brown squirrel, but it must have been a mongoose.

 

[Fulano2]

Frankly, in el Campo never heard them calling it ardilla, they bloody know what it is....Herpestes javanicus.

 

[william webster]

or a variation thereof........

our juron seems to be sleeker, thinner, longer and perhaps lower to the ground.

but the same family, for certain.

 

[Celt202]

MONGOOSE (HERPESTES JAVANICUS)

 

[william webster]

Picture has longer legs and shorter tail than what I am used to seeing

Like dogs..... Euro bred are different than NoAmerican.

 

[jtom343]

That's exactly what I just saw also. In my HOUSE. Came to look it up and found this thread.

I tried to scare the thing out of the house with a bamboo stick and as I was swinging it, the thing caught the stick in its' mouth and started wriggling around trying to pull it from me.

That's what I saw. I think that's a mongoose.

I did some googling and came to the conclusion that a Dominican juron looks like this:

Creatures of Dominican Republic, The Non-Human type

 

[william webster]

Mine was in the house.. in the bedroom...it ran away....straight into my dogs

I mentioned earlier in the thread