Folk Taxonomy?!

If this is a cat, than what is this? A pig?

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Yoda's kid? And the cat looks amazingly like an opossum to me. Except in greater LA they are cats. In some parts of LA they are both fud.

By Old Bogus (not verified) on 29 Mar 2008 #permalink