…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/09/16/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-nearby/
I’m always amazed at how close wildlife will let you approach them before flying or waddling away. Seagulls are very use to humans but racoons shouldn’t be out in the daytime and this one certainly didn’t move one inch the whole time I took photos. I suspect that he wasn’t well, so I didn’t get too close. The bunny in our backyard is so familiar with us now that he doesn’t even freeze when he sees us.
Mama Cormier 
I feel so sorry for the raccoon, I hop it doesn’t suffer.
Thank you for sharing your Nearby creatures with our challenge.
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The city has a huge problem with sick raccoons this year. Some people have been hiring indigenous trappers to trap them and take them away. They are the only people allowed to do that.
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Oh, how awful, I’m glad the indigenous people were able to help. I hope the animals didn’t suffer.
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I got so many pictures of bunnies when I visited my friends in Sheridan. We don’t seem to have them here in my part of Mexico so we make do with squirrels.
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We have tons of squirrels as well this year the raccoons have become a real problem.
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Do you have a local animal control that will give you cages where they can trap them and relocate them? I had to do that with both coons and skunks once in the States.
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We do but they won’t relocate them. They either come back or become someone else’s problem.
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Lovely photos Clare!
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Thanks Aletta. Carol
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