What is this?

[Josh45640]

Gopher...

 

[Debbiesflocks]

looks like a Gopher to me. good eaten

 

[Cetawin]

That is a gopher. Tail is too short for a rat, the head and snout size and shape is wrong for a rat as well.

 

[bobbi-j]

That is a pocket gopher. We have trapped them here when they make mounds in the lawn and fields.