This is a very short story about our neighborhood raccoon.
When neighbor Julie, walking her dog Patches, joined Joyce and me, she asked, “Have y’all seen a raccoon around lately?”
I replied that I caught one on the cam a few days ago. It was actually only two days ago.
“Well,” she said, “he is no more. He’s dead. I named him Rocket.”
Julie continued, telling us her two dogs barked at the ‘coon, and she went back in the house. She went outside alone to shoo it away, and it started walking toward her! That’s a warning sign when a wild animal approaches you. A delivery truck pulled into the driveway. The driver dropped the box he was delivering to her, and then he accidentally killed the raccoon by driving over it.
Julie said, “He died right there in my driveway!”
Here is my clip of the live action from the camera:
Mehrling Muse 
Oh no. That is so sad. Most animals know to stay out of the way of a moving vehicle. (Most drivers know not to drive over an animal 😒)
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The coon was sick, so it wasn’t behaving normally.
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That makes sense.
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The raccoon must’ve been sick.
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I would say you’re fortunate that it was killed. Unless it was a pet it probably had something wrong with it.
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That’s what we thought, too.
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The video wouldn’t load for me, but it is sad about the raccoon
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Yes, but it was probably very sick.
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I’ll bet that someone in the neighborhood was feeding it and it got too familiar with people and was running up to people looking for food. Next door had two of them, mother and baby, in his trash can one night. He pulled the car into the driveway and the headlights spooked them and they looked up – it’s the kind of rolling trash can that flips up – they flipped up the lid and were digging around inside. That’s sad it died – it might have been rabid too and that’s why it approached. Better than a black bear!
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I’ve had a black bear on the cam before.
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That’s scary, but I remember you had photos of it too. I followed a weather forecaster on social media and he had a large hummingbird feeder and a bear used to visit after dark to drink from it. He would post videos from his Ring camera showing the bear tipping the feeder over to drink from the ports. He alerted the DNR and they arrived that night, tranquilized the bear and took it far away from the neighborhood.
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Would have loved to watch the video but it says, Private.🎊
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Others had trouble seeing it, too. I’m sorry.
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The video is private and won’t let me access.
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I wonder what made the video private. ???
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I don’t have an answer for that. Just like sometimes my videos won’t play and other times they do.
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Private video but still quite a story in words! Very unusual behavior and glad all were safe from it.
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I don’t know why the video was private or how to fix it. Sorry!
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No worries-your writing told the story!
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The poor thing😢
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oh no
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