It's that time of year again!!! Raccoon Man's birthday! I love and appreciate each and every one of you, thank you for being on this raccoon journey with me!
It's October 1st, 🦝 International Raccoon Appreciation Day – a chance for us to learn more about these adorable creatures and show our appreciation by protecting their habitats.
Raccoons are nocturnal animals, native to North America and northern South America. In the wild, raccoons have a life expectancy of about 2 to 3 years, but in captivity, they can live up to 20 years. These cute little mammals are omnivores like us, so they eat a wide variety of foods – fruits, nuts, berries, insects, rodents, frogs, crayfish, eggs, and our trash, while keeping an eye out for predators like cougars, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, and owls.
Despite their appeal, though, some people look upon raccoons as vermin. They can be pesky critters – turning over trash cans, tearing up gardens, stealing eggs from chicken coops, etc. They can also carry diseases like rabies and roundworm.
Most people love raccoons anyway, though – especially the unique way they use their paws to "wash" their food. They also use their little hands to open latches and remove lids from containers. They can rotate their rear paws 180 agrees, which allows them to climb down trees headfirst. Raccoons are incredibly smart, too. At one time, they were used instead of lab rats, but the strong-willed raccoons kept outsmarting the scientists. Because of their high intelligence and cuteness, some people keep raccoons as pets. President Calvin Coolidge had two pet raccoons while he was in the White House. How cool is that! ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet
I just woke up from a dream that they adapted Solitaire into a movie and uhhh... let me preface this by saying I have not read the book yet so I don't know the plot so my subconscious brain took a couple 'creative liberties....'
Tori has a pet raccoon. I think their name was Hambone or something like that. They had the ability to speak but chose not to. Anyway, Hambone ran away and became friends with a goose and they started pulling heists together because they wanted to break into an art museum and smash all the Venetian glass. During the heist, the goose starts slinging webs cause apparently they've been bitten by the spider from spiderman. idk. Somehow, they uncover a plot that a mad scientist/evil billionaire will launch a satellite that will allow him to destroy and/or take over the world. don't ask me what that info was doing in an art gallery.
So now it's a spy movie starring spidergoose and a raccoon and I'm sitting in the theater wondering when all that happened in the book or if I'm even in the right movie?? Occasionally it'll cut to Tori but she's just vibing in her room. And then after 2 and a half minutes of her listening to music and spinning around in her chair, they cut back to the real protagonists of the story who are in space now and it's an action movie and spidergoose is yelling out stuff like "Hurry! We only have 15 minutes before the satellite starts quantum entangling (????) the Earth!"
At this point, enough is enough and I am so damn confused that I pull out my copy of the book and flip through the pages and the inside is a Shel Silverstein type of book? Like really short poems and semi abstract drawings and lots of empty pages. I realize that somehow I accidentally bought the wrong book and apparently the writers of the movie did too.🤷♀️
I think this dream was too much for me cause i woke up with a splitting migraine and i just lay there for an hour trying to process what i had experienced🤕
"FEATURES AT BROADVIEW BOYS' FALL FAIR," Toronto Globe. October 3, 1930. Page 3.
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An idea of the variety of features at the Broadview Boys' Fall Fair. which was formally opened last night, is given above. Here are shown: No. 1 - Nelson McLielu, 165 First Avenue, with his pet goat, "Kidde one of the entries in the pet show. No. 2- Model yachts, another interesting display. No. 3 - The showing of 23 cups won by the Broadview YMCA Model Aeroplane Club in the three years of its existence, secured at national and international shows. No. 4 -Clifford Humphrey, 136 Hamilton Street, and hits raccoon, the only "coon" entered in competition at the lair. This animal shows remarkable skill in getting pencils out of its owner's pockets.
Seeing videos of people keeping wild animals as pets genuinely stresses me out, especially if the person has a large following. They don’t understand how much harm they are doing.
If you find an orphaned or injured animal, DON’T KEEP IT AS A PET! Please contact a wildlife center.
bizly as dm is so fucking funny because a player will take a bit too far and try to do something absolutely stupid and bizly is just like. okay bet. now there’s a fucking raccoon in your winnebago and vyncent got ran over