Cubby and her kids are a tight-knit group. They show up in silence, they eat and frolic in the water in silence and they they melt back into the darkness in silence. No squabbling, no bullying the runt and no calling the attention of predators. What a nice little family! 😀 #backyardanimals#wildlife#nature#animals#raccoon#raccoons
I'm wearing my headphones, coffee in hand, still raining, but I have to build a carrier for siding anyway.
I'm less than a box to complete (about $300 per box) and they sell vinyl siding by the piece. I just have to secure 12 feet so it won't break in transit. Monday morning when they open. I have to be ready.
Vox visits New Orleans and gets to participate in the traditional ritual of "hassling some dude who came in from the as end of nowhere to spend his Southern Decadence weekend holding up a sign and telling everyone to stop having fun". Which is a real thing, people come from all around the country to visit this town and tell us we're going to hell, and I feel it is kind of my civic duty to tell them to fuck off now and then.
This is the little guy from the family of four, now there are three. One moved in with the groundhogs😏.
He's always last, every other Raccoon was gone at first light. He Spent a late Saturday night at the Crab bar, and he's waddling in looking for a place to curl up for the day.
The groundhog trap is open, try napping in there?
Oh my goodness a new raccoon 🥳 This is not my missing raccoon friend but I feel certain that it is one of her children. They have just the same mannerisms it’s almost like having Cubby back! #backyardanimals#nature#wildlife#raccoon
Like kids at an arcade, tuned out.
That's one disorganized child.
All the other raccoons went back into the woods before daylight.
This guy needs a watch, he's always the last to leave the ocean floor. #Fishing#Raccoon#Raccoons
For #NationalPetDay here is a watercolor of Linnaeus' pet #raccoon, Sjupp, by Lars Alstring, c.1746-7. Sjupp was a gift from Crown Prince Fredrik and lived in Linnaeus' garden at Uppsala. This work hung in Linnaeus' study at Hammarby.
Read more about Sjupp here: https://nature.com/articles/446255a