...there's Little Debbie.
Posted on 09/07/2019 6:55:40 PM PDT by 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.
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Didn’t the Beatles have a song about a drunken raccoon? I think his name was Rocky.
“He couldn’t really move. He was dragging his legs, he was wobbling, having a hard time standing up,”
I’ve had Mornings After like that. :-)
I guess it was about five years ago Mrs. RQSR, and I were out in the back barbecuing when a Raccoon came into the middle of the patio. He stood up on his back legs, and leaned against one of the stanchions holding the aluminum patio roof up. Just leaned against it as though “Unh, like when is the food ready man?”. “Anh, like where’s my beer”?
We watched incredulously at the brazen attitude expressed by the body language of the animal. He was there for a party, and by golly he was going to party.
The Raccoon stayed for about twenty minutes (we almost named him) standing with one leg (like an arm) holding him up against the stanchion with an air as though he was an invited guest.
After about twenty minutes of which we ignored him for about ten minutes, he seemingly shrugged his shoulders, climbed up the Eucalyptus tree next to the patio, and was gone.
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “drunk as a skunk.”
Hilarious. :D
Poor skunks! But I guess when your bod smells like a nasty Big Mike fart, booze is the only answer to cope.
One of my favorite old movies was an HBO movie called “Animals Are Beautiful People” - a humorously edited and narrated look at wildlife in and around the Namib Desert. One of the funny scenes had the monkeys getting smashed on fermented fruit, passing out and waking up gloriously hung over.
Did they just activate the 5G grid in the vacinity of the raccoons in Canada?
[[I’ve always thought yellow jackets are more aggressive during the fall for the same reason.
They’re getting buzzed. (HA!)]]
LOL good one- but yep- they do get more aggressive as the colder weather begins to come along too for some reason-
When I lived at Lake Sherwood in CA raccoons by the 10’s would come to my back patio at nite, I had huge glass sliding doors and the young ones would palm the glass on their back legs sayin open open open lol but always was a Fat Albert who would just plop on his butt and wait
I kept a bag of dinner rolls and would chunk a few then leave for 15ish minutes
Sure nuff, they would mozzy to the next house but not ole
Fat Albert
I would chunk him a couple rolls
btw that area was LOADED with owls, big ones too
Staggering drunken raccoons would make a good rock band name!
...there's Little Debbie.
I’ve killed two raccoons that acted like that. Distemper. It solved the over-population of raccoons though.
His mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries.
I read an article about it - I think it said the wasps/hornets whatever, know they are going to die - and are cranky about it. Seriously.
A Japanese man who never drank was repeatedly cited for drunk driving: too much rice, which fermented in his gut.
Damn I had that problem too but rice wasn’t it, it was sweet corn plus some yeast products. 5 or 6 ears of corn with a little yeast product and viola. The judge was pretty skeptical at first. I invited him over and fed him sweet corn and some wine/beer and rock and roll music with some girls I know. Next morning he could see how easy going astray can be. He fined me $800.00 and wanted to know if any sweet corn and Jill were still around. Jail is for losers. :).
Speaking of drunken animals, I have seen innumerable birds get drunk on overripe pyracantha berries.
We get squirrels drunk from eating fermented acorns. They run around and get hit out in the street. We call it squirrelacide.
Avoid the drunk trash Pandas.
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