What Kind Of Animal Is Arthur Supposed To Be?

[arwalden]

Arthur is the one on the left. What is he?
A mouse? A squirrel?

[WCGreen]

1. What ever animal.....

You can tell he's one of them librul homersexual animals.......

[trof]

2. a kumquat

with ears

[nerddem]

3. i heard somewhere he's an aardvark? nt

[Lavender Brown]

4. I think so too

[xmas74]

9. Yep.

That's it.

My kid watches all the time and has the books.

[LostinVA]

10. That's what he is

[jane_pippin]

5. Before they gave him a nosejob he was an aardvark.

Then they made him look all cutesy and he stopped looking like anything. The bastards.

The thing on his left is, I think, his friend Buster the Bunny.

[Taverner]

6. Aardvark

Buster is a bunny

[Sequoia]

7. An alien.

When my child was in kindergarten her school had a holiday pagent and someone was dressed up like Arthur and sat beside me. I was freaked out and actually moved away. Now, I'll bet the person inside of the costume was a person who knew me because it/he/she keep looking at me and made a point to set beside me. I can understand why little kids are afraid of these things.

[arwalden]

8. Now I Know! Aardvark It Is! Thank You! --

With the word "aardvark" in hand... and a google search... I found this FAQ at PBSKids.org

http://pbskids.org/arthur/parentsteachers/help/answers/faq_friends.html

[anarch]

11. chupacabra?

[Redstone]

12. He started off as an aardvark, but got cutesified.

We have some of the original books.

Redstone