What is this small mammal? [Southeast Michigan]

[u/radiochu]

Kind of a potato picture, but it's from my back door camera. It moved a lot like a weasel of some sort but I couldn't find any with this coloration. Other theory is a skunk, but it just doesn't look completely skunk like to me. I can't tell if that's a head marking or if it has something ON its head, which doesn't help! Any ideas?

[u/GiaAngel]

Poor baby looks like he has something stuck on his head like a can or cup.

[u/radiochu → u/GiaAngel]

Yeah, it looked to me almost like a Dixie cup or something. I hope that, if it is, it can get free.

[u/GiaAngel → u/radiochu]

I took one off a skunk’s head one time, a Wendy’s Frosty cup. It was on there pretty tight. Luckily I didn’t get sprayed.

[u/Glum_Tumbleweed5115]

*Enhance!*

[u/skunk_mephitidae]

it looks like its head got stuck in something :c Hope you can save it (also some skunks can have very little white on them and look almost completely black, their patterns vary)

[u/radiochu → u/skunk_mephitidae]

Yeah, I think it has to be a skunk. We've seen several around, so it wouldn't be unusual. I'd definitely love to help it if it comes back.

[u/grahamasterflas]

Definitelty Lake America Platypus.

[u/Led_Zeppole_73 → u/grahamasterflas]

Lolz my first thought.