Possible Clues:

• University of Minnesota mascot Goldy __
• Picked up by the ears, fancy rodent?
• Green light for the man in public relations with rodent
• Someone on an errand, it's said, for wood for Ark
• Burrowing US rodent
• American rodent
• Burrowing rodent of north and central America
• Garden tunneler
• Burrowing animal — kind of wood
• Republican Party woman's burrowing creature