Tipsy raccoons are passing out, stumbling around Canadian neighborhood

FOX 61 ^ | September 7, 2019

[McGruff]

Residents in one Canadian community say they’ve noticed the local raccoons staggering drunkenly and passing out on the ground in the middle of the day.

Emily Rodgers told CBC News she called the city after seeing one apparently inebriated raccoon in her backyard.

“He couldn’t really move. He was dragging his legs, he was wobbling, having a hard time standing up,” Rodgers said. “You could tell something was wrong with him for sure.”

An Ottawa naturalist told the station that raccoons are likely consuming more alcohol than they can handle from fruit fermenting on the ground.

[McGruff]

[Deaf Smith]

“Shoot’em Troy!”

[Texas Eagle]

What do you expect when you legalize the recreational use of drugs?

[Texas Eagle]

Life impersonating a Far Side cartoon.

Or is it the other way around? I always get that confused.

[stars & stripes forever]

The deer get a bit tipsy on the fruit too.

[Ken H]

I’ve always thought yellow jackets are more aggressive during the fall for the same reason.

They’re getting buzzed. (HA!)

[BradyLS]

Fermenting fruit? Or half-consumed liter bags of wine that are thrown in the trash?

[Texas Eagle]

Raccoons are always hungover. You can tell by the dark circles around their eyes.

[mewzilla]

Guess he won’t be coming home to snuggles with Mama....

[McGruff]

In a related story:

Rabid’ raccoons turn out to be drunk on fermented crabapples

https://fox61.com/2018/11/15/rabid-raccoons-turn-out-to-be-drunk-on-fermented-crabapples/

[faithhopecharity]

if you life consisted of snow, ice, sleet, garbage, and people shooting at you when you try to eat your dinner

you’d probably take up booze, too

[BradyLS]

“A wan bourba, a wan skosshhh, a wan beeerrr...” *plonk*

[2banana]

And they are mean drunks

[Bonemaker]

I’d be drunk all the time too if I had to live in Canada.

[Texas Eagle]

People in Canuckistan are tossing half empty bags of wine??? Bastards! Don’t they know there are people in small, rural Northern California towns that sometimes go for hours without wine because they hate having to drive 5 miles into town and having to deal with people?

[laplata]

LOL

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Drunker than a peach orchard boar.

[Bonemaker]

“He couldn’t really move. He was dragging his legs, he was wobbling, having a hard time standing up,”

Pick him up and pet him to see if he has rabies.

[radu]

We see the same thing here every year ..... critters drunk on fermented pears from our trees. Raccoons, deer, foxes, and even crows. Quite an entertaining show through the living room windows.

[wastedyears]

Did someone say drunk raccoons?