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Sorry, but you are hereby ejected from the southern naming convention panel.
As all right thinking individuals know, a critter is any non human that moves under its own power or surprises us by being alive but looking like it shouldn't be because it doesn't move under its own power, like yankees and coral.
A varmint is a critter you don't want in your garden, on your farm, and may be shot on sight, like coyote, raccoons, or yankees.
Edit: you may also substitute the following corollary to the definition of critter: any living thing which Ellie May Clampett would be likely to adopt.
Also, as you noted, it's varmint, not varmit. It's etymology is vermin. Sounds like something a yank would get wrong (as a half-yank, I can speak to this).
Came here to say this. All varmints are critters, but not all critters are varmints.
Also, sometimes a creature can be an occasional varmint, a sort of shrodingers varmint. Is a raccoon a varmint? It both is and is not until you find out if it's dinner, a pet, or eating your maters
I would also like to make a motion as a member of the panel that a critter would not be anything less than half the size of a mouse. Bugs aren't critters unless they are big spiders for instance but a tiny frog definitely is.
Bees and wasps I dont know.
A critter must skitter. It's in the name, sorry
Where is the toaster oven for scale?
Dang varmints ate it
"has fur"
Displays list of mostly non-mammals.
EDIT: lacks "has fur". Makes more sense now.
I misread it at first too, but it says "lacks one of the following traits"
Ah, yes! That's much better!