Just then, I saw the mitten lying in the freshly fallen snow. I picked it up
and looked inside. I could not believe my eyes! It had a black striped, sleek
head with small pointy ears. It had a black muzzle. The creature was about the
size of a skunk. His claws were non-retractable. The garbage can thief had a
thick short tail. It had hind legs that looked like flat oval plates. As I got
closer to the mitten, I could smell the stinky fellow. It smelled so horrible
that I dropped the mitten in the snow. I ran back home and told my whole family
that I saw a