Post by @futurebird@sauropods.win

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/116967343844591549

I added a photo of the vegetable garden criminal that my husband got while I was helping #picaTheCat to calm down.

She was exceptionally angry to see this cute creature.

I hope it will move along and stop coming to the roof. I will walk around today and try to determine why it's up here. It could just be the water from the bird bath. (our garden is too tiny to feed this creature, it must have a way to get garbage too.)

13 hours ago

#picaTheCat sits motionless like the great Sphinx watching the door. She is very serious about OpSec.

#picathecat

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Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 3 hours ago

@futurebird

I still remember the first time I saw a raccoon "in the wild", back when I lived in Kassel.

(Raccoons are not native to Germany, but they are spreading quickly.)

michael

@proseandpassion@mastodon.social 3 hours ago

@juergen_hubert @futurebird I just love the fact that the #raccoons in Germany were released on purpose "to enrich the fauna" in a unique act of well-documented stupidity, complete with official rubberstamp. More about it in my ancient feature on invasive species, which also includes something about #ants: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2012/10/alien-invaders.html

alien invaders

My latest feature is about invasive species large and small, from raccoons to ants, also visiting those that cause disease in plants or huma...

Jürgen Hubert

@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social 2 hours ago

@proseandpassion @futurebird

Fun fact: That "official rubberstamp" only arrived two weeks _after_ the racoons had been released, because the person releasing them lost his patience waiting for the reply from Berlin.