ORIF
Senior Member
It's a river otter as Larry pointed out. To be sure put a coiled line on your swim step over night, if it's got sh:t on it in the morning, it's an otter.
Agree completely with the coiled rope test. A friend of mine commented a while back that an otter likes to leave his deposits on a coiled up dock line more than anything else.
He also said that he found an otter deposit on his small boat, and to place it where he found it, he swears it had to be holding on to the steering wheel...
Your critter looks smallish so may be a juvenile otter or a mink.
I've had both.
I videoed this otter on my dock last week
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