The saddest thing I saw today

[james_davis_nicoll]

The local raccoon, still very round from all the winter fat it put on for a winter that never came, morosely examining the fencing the LRT people have run down the middle of Charles Street. After a while, it turned around and waddled back up the steps to Madison South....

(feral cat just goes up one side of the fence and down the other before repeating it on the next set of fences)

Comments

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Great opportunity for some high-burn workouts, but I suppose it has to ramp up first.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

"Dang it, if I had known they were going to do this, I would have stopped after the first box of donuts."

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

We caught a feral cat out in our shed yesterday. S/he gets the snip-snip tomorrow, and then when recovery is complete, will be let loose again.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Another tragedy of global climate change: raccoon obesity.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

But think how happy it makes all the raccoon physicists.

Although I guess they still need to be of uniform density. I guess that'll be stage 2.

[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

And frictionless. Though that may be why it decided not to try the fence.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

She might be pregnant, mightn't she?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Maybe but I know this raccoon and if it is pregnant, it has been pregnant all winter.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I can't tell one from another myself, and they always look pretty roly-poly, especially in winter coats. There was a raccoon couple mating in my yard on February 1*, so around here that female is likely halfway or so through gestation, but our climate is quite different.

*They take ages. I'd no idea. I took a short video on my camera, went upstairs to figure out how to transfer said video to Facebook, which took a little time, came back, and they were still at it. Making out like bandits, as one says.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

My husband found Joseph (the cat's) body out in the open a few days ago, where something had dragged it from under the house. We were pretty sure he'd died--the lingering odor was a tipoff--but my poor husband said it was still a terrible shock coming around the corner and seeing him there all of a sudden. He identified the cat by the crumpled ear. Joseph now has a proper grave, dug, appropriately, in the rain.

We don't know who/what pulled him out. Cats wouldn't have, would they? Raccoons, maybe, but why would they go to all that trouble and not have a snack? I suggested divine telekinesis, but my husband thinks raccoons are far more probable. Thoughts?

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about your cat.
:(

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Thanks. He was a sweet old boy, and brother of the cat in my icon.

[(Anonymous)]

They're working on your LRT? My LRT was due for completion in the fall of 2015. I think they've almost started on it.

Thank you, Rob!

William Hyde