We haven’t seen Peoples, the raccoon, in forever! Sadly, I have seen what looks like the remains of Peoples, near the street. The circle of life is hard*. Maybe living here will make me less sensitive about wild animal death? Maybe? Doubtful.
So, no Peoples, but this baby raccoon has been showing up A LOT in our yard.
We’ve named him Rocky. Maybe he knew Peoples, and that is who taught him how to hang like this? Ha ha.
I know they’re horrible and unclean and destroy things but they’re SO fun to watch!
*OMG, speaking of the circle of life**, I was watching a documentary on Netflix this week about Antarctica, and they were talking about the seals that don’t make it out in to the water before it freezes in the winter, and are stuck on dry land and how they aren’t allowed to help them. THEN THEY SHOW A SEAL CRYING FOR HELP!!!! OMG. I about cried. BLAH.
**Also circle of life related… I have just been telling myself that this (photo below) is poop, and it’s red because there are raspberries in the yard. That’s gotta be it. No other possibilities.
Even if raccoons (or squirrels) are annoying, it’s still sad to see them as roadkill. I’m glad you have a new entertaining friend in the yard though.
I’m pretty sure those smears are from bird poop; they’re still pretty pinkish-red (not, like, brown or rust-colored).
I am glad too! He came back tonight!
I really hope that is what it is!!! But why so much?! EWWWW! ha ha
“Poop”? Hmmm…looks more like a crime scene to me. So sorry to hear about Peoples. It really is sad to see how cruel life is for animals in the wild. I hope Rocky is clever enough to stay safe in your yard!
LOL – that is a funny way to put it. And TOTALLY what it looks like.
I hope Rocky has better luck!!!
I am glad you have a new little friend to watch 🙂 Over the years we have fed some neighborhood strays pretty regularly, and it always hurts when they stop showing up.
My cat has given me a few gifts I wish he had not, but it part of what is natural to them.
I do hate to see a documentary like that where clearly an animal is in pain though – can’t take it.
I was talking to Steven about that last night and that I’d be less upset if Data brought me the dead thing. Not sure why that is!!! Maybe cause I know what happened?
Oh gawd, I was losing it when I watched that documentary!!! It was horrible!
🙁 it is so sad to see the circle of life first hand. I used to get so upset seeing all of the stray dogs in Mexico, but after a while I got desensitized a bit to it. (I still wanted to adopt them and save them all) rocky is a cutie. I’m going with berry poop. Totes.
That would really bug me too. I was that way about the cats in Roma 🙁 ADOPT ALL THE ANIMALS!!!!
That totes what it is… errrr….
Where I grew up was very much like where you live now, and I was so used to seeing roadkill that it never bothered me at all (except when I would run or bike past it, because it smelled and was usually full of flies). But now that I live in the city, I pretty much NEVER see roadkill (not having animals around makes it hard for them to die by vehicles haha), so now when I go home and see dead animals on the side of the road, it makes me sad 🙁 I’ve become sensitized!
You have become sensitized again!!! Gah, this makes me think about how they decorate the roadkill on RAGBRAI with mardi gras beads. So silly.