Posted on 07/09/2024 9:41:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
Just for the sheer novelty, I am posting one of the 11 tongue-in-cheek tweets related to the discovery of a dead racoon next to a bus station. I decided not to post pics because it is a dead animal, but I don't think it rates as 'severe' as far as this kind of picture goes. I'll put a link to one of the pics in the series for those interested.
The first tweet in the series was an image of a dead racoon on the sidewalk near the open doors of a bus - and the text notified animal control (Toronto) to pick it up.
As the day progressed the raccoon was honored by the public in a lighthearted way, with people leaving notes, flowers, a framed photo, and eventually candles beside it by nightfall. One city official requested that residents leave the lid open on their trash cans out of respect for the dead animal. It took 14 hours or so for animal control to arrive at night and 'remove the body' leaving behind the votive candles, flowers, cards etc. Even after it was gone - apparently people maintained the candle and mementos
Here's a picture of the raccoon six hours in:
https://i.imgur.com/4PwsnYL.jpeg
Old news. This all happened several years ago.
Could have been witnessing the birth of a serial killer, masked by social media nonsense.
Just sayin’...
Covering the poor animal would have been more respectful, but I was raised under a different structure than most canuck idiots, especially those under 30.
As human beings, we become conditioned to rationalizing death all the time, usually, by necessity.
We rationalize the deaths of flies, mosquitoes and the loathsome cockroach.
We become accustomed to feeling the slight speedbumps of driving over roadkill, or causing the deaths as we hunt in the woods, as we “hunt” in the supermarket meat and fish sections, as we “hunt” online for a six pack of chicken soup.
Ongoing death will always be linked to ongoing living. Still, every so often, it’s nice to remind ourselves that all life is precious, and purposeful, even if just for a short amount of time.
Only someone who's never had a family of raccoons destroy their entire vegetable garden overnight would say that. Or rip their screen door to shreds. Or spread their trash cans over half an acre. Or crawl in the cat door and tear up the kitchen. Or........
Oh, I have had several of such experiences.
While I say all life is precious, that doesn’t mean we cannot protect what belongs to us or keeps us sustained. There is a time for being sentimental and writing storybooks about talking , singing animals who teach us lessons, and there is a time for D-Con, for when the Rats trespass or invade the places where we live.
Almost a decade! I just looked.
Or maim or kill every chicken in the henhouse...
“Only someone who’s never had a family of raccoons destroy their entire vegetable garden overnight “
We currently have a family destroying all of my wife’s bird feeders. They are not happy with just taking the food, they have to destroy the feeders and some feeders just turning up missing.
I’m in the process of killing them. Caught one last night. Before the day is out rigor mortise will have set in on that masked jerk.
There is nothing cute about a destructive or dangerous animal. They will also pair up to kill house cats, I’ve actually caught that on a trail cam. They are extremely vicious. A cat climbs a tree, a coon runs up them - the cat has no chance.
OTOH just this week I saw, on the video feed from the porch, two of my cats gang up on a 'coon and drive it away. I was kinda hoping it would come thru the cat door, because I was waiting to dispense a little .22 caliber justice. They know there's a kibble feeder for the cats in the mudroom.
OK, another time.....
RLM
So to get rid of the cats I need to get more raccoons.
I think I remember a song or something that went something like this....
Eh, nevermind. Whats the worst that could happen?
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