------------ Do NOT feed Raccoons on your property ! ------- There are consequences !--------

That is exactly what the city is doing but the “coyote feeders” are complaining now. Go figure.

City implemented locking bins few years back and not only that they overturn them but they’ve learned how to unlock them.

I think you missed my point. If humans don’t feed the animals in urban areas then there is no need for animal population explosion like we have with coyotes and racoons. Wild animals are opportunistic creatures, no need to give them the opportunity.

I think you should ask who are the real monsters, we are all animals.

Do coyotes bread like rabbits or just have 1 or 2 in a litter?

Amazing how smart raccoons are.

In fact, as old as I am, I am still learning and seeing how smart many animals species are

It’s just that one actually has to take the time to watch them, and learn.

I have realized in the last few years of watching the finches in my yard, how smart they are.

A tiny bird like that, ( a bird brain :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:), are actually very smart

The world always has something to teach us…we just have to be able to listen or watch.

When you say that, it makes me think of the documentaries over the years that I have watched, and the massive buffalo herds in the U.S. in the early 19th century, they were massive in size, but hit their max size of the herds naturally ( natures limit sort to say)…Then humans came along, and decimated the buffalo herds to almost reaching the extinction point.

It seems whenever humans get involved, with anything, we throw off the natural balance, or natures rules, and impose “humans” rules and screw everything up.

I was going to say, in my next life I want to come back as an animal

But then realized I am one already​:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Just not the species of animal I am happy with being, the more I learn in life …

A raccoon had to be saved from a storm drain using equipment usually used for rescuing people trapped in cars.
Firefighters in Rostraver Township, Pennsylvania, deployed a ‘jaws of life’ powerful hydraulic tool after other methods failed to help the critter.


laughing

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WOW, They had to use the Jaws Of Life to rescue Rocky Raccoon?

I look at that picture and think I would have grabbed some dish liquid, soap up around the Raccoons head, then turn his/her head about 25 degrees counter clockwise the the 2 eyes are parallel to the longer length of the metal box frame the raccoons head is stuck in, He/she got it in there, it would just take some maneuvering and soap, to get em out.

I think raccoons are smart enough, in this situation,

to not try to bite the hand that is trying to rescue it. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I am sure that Rocky Raccoon, is VERY Thankful

It did not rain, and flood the storm drain, their head is stuck in.

It ran off .

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Better yet don’t feed wild animals it’s mostly illegal anyway and no different for wild cats

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: I dont think he/she will be traveling through storm drains for a while.

Seems the person who found the raccoon stuck tried using soap & water too.

Viewing the picture I still believe it could have been freed using the soap and water, or even canola oil, if it just turned its head about 25 degrees counter clockwise, It looks like it would slide back out..

In any regards he/she is free, and yapping to all its friends about how good humans were to him.

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I noticed when the 6 entered my yard the other night

They were chatting a lot, the Wyze cam picked it up

Seems they are talkers when in groups.

:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

If I dont feed the yard cats, they eat the finches in my yard

Feeding the yard cats, I am saving the yard cats lives, and the birds life.

I should let the cats eat the finches, because the finches go after my string bean plants, kale plants, and 12 ft sunflower plants..along with the timid but hungry ground hog that likes storming through the garden and eating our vegetables.

Yea I am a law breaker in my town, I feed the cats…

The town has WANTED posters for the capture of me, dead or alive.

Seriously I have been taken care of animals for many years, 15+

I don’t plan on stopping now… a life is a life…not matter what shape or form.

After 15+ years, the raccoon killing the kitten is the 1st time I have ever seen this happen..

a few of the cats I have brough to the shelter, had em fixed, and a few I have adopted

Including these, which were all previously feral cats/kittens

Who could deny them ?

I came across this on Reddit. It is right smack downtown Toronto in the Annex area.

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Holy Cow!

The coyote owns the town!

No fear

Owns the city, Greater Toronto Area has over 7 million people :laughing:

:joy:

And if there is 1 walking around like they own the city, there has to be many others doing the same
I would think?

Brazen Coyoties!

Yeah, it started with couple sightings here and people were, oh so cute. Started feeding them and now they do own the city. Instead of leaving them be in the wild now they invited them in the city so they can kill them. Most people have no common sense.

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I would say based upon everything you have mentioned, its out of control

It almost makes me think its like a Hollywood horror movie or something

The Coyotes taking over the town…

I guess things could be worse!

:joy::rofl:

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Thanks for the morning chuckle :slight_smile:

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Nothing better than a good laugh to start ones day off

:rofl::+1:

Reminds me of Collateral (2004):

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Never seen that movie

Is that Jamie Fox as the driver?

great band Audioslave