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)

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[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.