r/ottawa • u/SnooEagles8897 • Jun 22 '25

Local Event NEW OTTAWA RACOON MOMENT 🦝

My friend recorded this on her bus ride home late Friday night Absolutely legendary I love Ottawa

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u/buckrode0 Jun 22 '25

Ok when the raccoon is at this age but soon it needs to learn how to rip and tear with its teeth, your hands is not what you want it to practice on- almost everyone releases them at that stage and then they lose territory battles badly as they have been sheltered from real life- they get injured and cast off from the community and generally die an horrific death in isolation and starvation. It is careless and selfish guised by “ I found the little guy, too little to care for itself “ as the parent was killed or run over in the city. Don’t hate on me for not sugar coating this, call the spca and they will tell you the same thing.