Man Helps Raccoon Caught In Beer Can (Florida, With Pic)

Fort Myers News-Press ^ | October 27, 2002

[Shermy]

Coors Light and curiosity were almost a dangerous combination for a Bonita Springs raccoon.

The fluffy black and white masked creature spent more than a week climbing trees and hobbling around the shores of the eastern Imperial River with a rusty, dented Coors Light beer can stuck on her paw.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

I had this big fat dirty bastard who used to knock over our garbage cans (down the Jersey shore) and spread the garbage all over our lawn. It could undo the locking handles of the garbage can and would gnaw through or even untie ropes we used.

dead, that was a former President on vacation on the Jersey shore, hate to tell you.

[1Old Pro]

Coors Light

Isn't that that new water drink with the barely noticable scent of beer in it that's all the rage with girls.

[sparkomatic]

I'm with you. It's this sort of thing that helps keep me in practice.

[monday]

"The fluffy black and white masked creature spent more than a week climbing trees and hobbling around the shores of the eastern Imperial River with a rusty, dented Coors Light beer can stuck on her paw.... Amputation is not possible, LeBlanc said, because creatures such as raccoons need both front paws to climb trees and forage for food."

LOL... I noticed that too. Seems the reporter is more interested in getting as much 'pity factor' in the story as possible, than accuracy. Whats a little journalistic licence when one is crusading against littering?;^)

[eastsider]

City slicker? Racoons do, indeed, climb trees.

LOL : ) I'm aware racoons climb trees. There are several families of racoons living in the elms in Central Park that occasionally hiss at me after dark if they think I'm coming too close to their trees.

I was merely questioning how this 'coon did the "impossible" by climbing trees with only one front paw.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If they have to amputate, maybe they can put a tiny little Coors beer can on it for a prosthesis.

[apackof2]

I really despise irresponsible, lazy litters who will walk 5 miles for a cheap beer but won't walk 10 feet to dispose of the can.
At least this story had a happy ending

[eastsider]

He'd be a shoe-in for the next Ace Ventura sequel.

[wimpycat]

Hopefully the poor critter was given a rabies shot as well.

[stainlessbanner]

Another reason why racoons shouldn't drink light beer

[The Duke]

"Hold muh raccoon"?

[Age of Reason]

I had this big fat dirty bastard who used to knock over our garbage cans (down the Jersey shore) and spread the garbage all over our lawn. It could undo the locking handles of the garbage can and would gnaw through or even untie ropes we used.

Meanwhile, the racoon is probably thinking he's got these two-legged son of a gun humans who paved over his forest and now he's got to look in garbage cans for food.

[wimpycat]

I was merely questioning how this 'coon did the "impossible" by climbing trees with only one front paw.

Technically speaking, the raccoon still had two paws, just one stuck in a beer can, so she could still climb, but she probably made a racket doing it. *clink*, *clink*, *clink*!

[John O]

Coors Light

Isn't that that new water drink with the barely noticable scent of beer in it that's all the rage with girls.

I understand it's like making love in a canoe

God Save America (Please)

[eastforker]

That coon wasn't Rabid,they always lurch sideways,I bet he bristled his fur up also.He was just being a coon.

[eastforker]

You got it all wrong,the previous owner was a snuff dipper and this was his spitcan,good thing too or that coons leg would have really been infected.

[pageonetoo]

raccoon...thinking????? Human response to a poor creature in troulbe is a natural response to any suffering. But ascribing human traits to a DUMB animal is a natural sign of ignorance ( or a touchy, feely liberal response.
GET YOUR GUN and shoot him!

[mg39]

Of course animals think. They may not think on the level of human beings, but an animal as highly evolved as a raccoon is certainly capable of thought and feeling. Any ignorance here is on your part: ignorance of biology and ethology, and your "just shoot it" mentality.

[TroutStalker]

I've seen my share of coons in the wild, and none acted that way. The ones that you have seen lurching sideways, do they usually fall over, too?

[pageonetoo]

of course animals think, and they design skyscrapers and airplanes. They contribute to our economy as food, and provide companionship for the lonely, but I have never seen a single wild or domestic animal that I could converse with...
Having studied both biology and theology, I have a great deal of respect for that which God gives to us, but you give yourself away when you talk about how the racoon has "evolved".
My teachings on biology were that animals do not reason (read=think). They respond to stimuli (hunger, fear, danger, sex)!
and it is almost hunting season... do you own a gun, or bow & arrow, or just go to the supermarket for all that you eat??