A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about a raccoon that is probably up to no good in the alley behind Yarmouth Street in the South End.
At least it's not a sewer pander.
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It's! So!
By MC Slim JB
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 2:50pm
Fluffy, I'm gonna die! (Of rabies.)
Raccoons
By BB from Dot
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 3:00pm
Why do people bother to complain to the city about raccoons/opossums/skunks? The city isn't going to do anything about them except to tell you not to leave out pet food and to cover your garbage. And good luck trying to get them to do anything about rats.
Right? We get possums and
By anon
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 4:21pm
Right? We get possums and skunks and it's never occurred to me to ask the city to do anything about them if they're not rabid, in obvious distress, or dead and stinking.
Welcome to the city, folks. The critters were here before you arrived and they'll be around long after you're gone.
Squirels are different, though.
By Bob Leponge
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 10:31pm
Always report squirrels. Every time you see one.
And rabbits.
By jmeltzer
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 6:18am
They have big pointy teeth.
and don't forget
By Lisfnord
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 8:41am
Turkeys!!! Always report turkeys. They want to harm your children!
You guys aren’t taking me serious
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:22pm
Ask any theologian. Squirrels do not have souls. Most of the problems that they create stem from that one fact. Unfortunately there is little that can be done about it.
Quibbles
By SamWack
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:17am
There are a couple of problems with your last assertion. They weren't all here before us; possums didn't arrive in New England until a century or two ago, and coyotes are a more recent arrival. More to the point, while I hope all these residents will outlast me, and even you too, I know well enough that the Human Plague has been brutally effective in reducing the number of species in almost any environment it invades. The main exceptions are those species that have adapted to live off of human refuse, but that is a precarious existence, because the nature of that refuse keeps changing. Can racoons live on Soylent Green?
Lions and Tigers and Bears. Oh my.
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 9:53am
I haven't seen lions or tigers or bears on my street, in my yard, or in my house in Fields Corner. However I have seen turkeys, raccoons, rats, mice, bats, squirrels, skunks, rabbits, feral cats and dogs, and coyotes. Oh my.
I can top that
By Bob Leponge
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 10:29pm
Fisher cat. Right in downtown Boston. Not a big animal, but damn, that thing had a convincing “leave me alone or I’ll eff up your day” look. Pretty much the whole front half of the animal was teeth. Turns out their diet includes porcupines, which they capture and subdue with great violence. I don’t know where it took a wrong turn to end up on my street but I wished it a safe and speedy return home...
I'm thankful for raccoons.
By anon
Mon, 10/14/2019 - 4:32pm
I'm thankful for raccoons. They're mother cute fuzzy answer to eating your nasty ass leftover pizza. Not thankful for human zombie littering Hep C feces on your sidewalks and used hypodermic needles in your planters.
They're mostly harmless.
By jmeltzer
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 6:10pm
Cover your trash and they'll find somewhere else to eat.
In the case of raccoons
By Eloyse
Sun, 10/13/2019 - 6:13pm
you probably want to lock that lid down. They're clever, dexterous, little buggers.
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By GenericUsername
Wed, 09/15/2021 - 4:28pm
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Abbey, the suburban raccoon, was unaware of
By bulgingbuick
Tue, 10/15/2019 - 8:46am
street cleaning and the towing jihad of Martin Walsh. Her BMW is the latest victim of an unaware millennial.
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