[Elsie]

I raise, rehablitate and release to the wild orphaned baby raccoons.

I trap, aggravate and release to a nature park 8 miles from my home any critter that has the temerity to try to steal my pet critters food!

A total of two skunks, 2-3 groundhogs, many opossoms and the biggest number: raccoons.

[Gargantua]

Eight miles? That's not a hard march for a raccoon, which averages 10-15 miles of wandering around each night scrounging for food. A mother 'coon with 4-8 babies trailing behind her will travel that distance each and every night (unless she has a reliable food source closer... like your pet's dish on your porch).

Thank you for not hurting the raccoons. Most people see raccoons the way liberals see Trump. They believe every horrible thing they ever heard about him, and never view him objectively or with a sense of appreciation for the wonderful things about him.

Raccoons are, on average, much smarter and way nicer than most people I have ever met.

As for being such unrepentant thieves, it was God himself who decided that raccoons should wear the bandit's black eye-mask for life with a striped prison uniform hanging off their butt like they just escaped Levenworth.

If I had to choose only one companion for the rest of my life on a deserted island, I'd take a raccoon. No lie.

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