Furry things that bite. . .

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So, it is nearing one AM, and right now i'm staying at my parents place, and i'm sitting in the kitchen, near the front door, and i hear a couple taps on the door. It isn't knocking, by any means, but i hear it a few times over a twenty minute period, and finally my dogs start barking, and i'm freaking out because i have a very strong imagination and i go get my father, who happens to be a police officer, and tell him that someone keeps tapping on the door. He goes outside with the flashlight, and ten minutes later he comes inside and is staggering. There is blood running down his leg. He looks around bewiledered, and grabs a towels and begins wiping himself off. While, at this point i am freaking out, because he ignores my question of what just happened for a good two minutes.

Apparently, he was walking around the side of the house, and some furry little creature spaced a distance of six feet in one jump, bit him on the fricken leg. he says it looks like a bunny. But there are two teeth marks embedded into his leg, and the space between the teeth marks is at least an inch.

Now, I'm excited because i think alien bunnies have landed, and now father is infected, or i'm a character in a bad rip off of a Stephen King novel but does anybody have any idea what could have bit him, looks like a bunny, but has an inch space between teeth? And can space large distances quickly.

We live in Minnesota. If that helps any.

It sounds a bit like a wild ferret or animals in that group of furry beings. Could also be a tamed ferret that has run off and is scared - therefore resulting in a bite. The tapping could have been the ferret's (or whatever it was) attempt to dig through the door as digging is their way of getting around things that is in the way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret

Maybe a small dog? If it was dark he might not have been able to tell. I don't know. But, if you aren't sure what kind of animal it was, he should definitely go to the doctor to get it checked. Some animals, cats for example, have a lot of bacteria in their mouths and cause people they bite to get infections very easily.

I have a ferret. I don't know if others try to do this, but he tries to get out the door alllll the time. Wild ferrets (polecats) wouldn't be in the US, I forgot where it said you where. It could be a ferret that got away, it could have been a wild rabbit too My ferret doesn't bite hardly ever (and then it's just playing), but plenty of others do. I hope it isn't a lost one though

When I read the thread title I immediately thought 'hamsters.'

^^ Greetings olso4644. I believe I certainly possess an idea for which species this little individual may belong to. However, I am very worried to inform you, as I am worried that perhaps your father may begin to hunt individuals that are classed within this species. I worry for this as very recently within my country a fox attacked two human children. Although this was a very rare attack, I believe humans often then enjoy setting traps for foxes.

May I ask, would you wish to hurt individuals that belong to his happy species?

EDIT: I am very sorry for your father however, and I hope very much that he recovers very quickly.

I am from Denmark, we have both wild ferrets and their nearest of kin whose name I cant remember in english.
I used to have two ferrets with my ex-boyfriend, they are the best pets on earth but sadly I haven't seen them since we broke up. If my landlord didnt forbid it, I prolly would have had one myself already. The ferrets we had together would constantly try to dig themselves out of the cage and also through the door. Obviously it was a lost cause for them. The last ferret we had though, was so properly trained that he didn't need a cage at all. He just had a cat-like cave to sleep in and a normal cat-toilet. But yes there is plenty of ferrets that arent proper bite-trained, or might not bite their owner but will bite others.

The thing that I've learned in Kindergarten, is that even cute, cuddly furballs like gerbals bite. One bit my left index finger. I couldn't draw, for a week. It was torture.