August 18, 2026
A few nights ago, your writer involuntarily hosted a full-grown pair of chattering-snarling raccoons (Procyon lotor, subsp. Psora), this year’s generation of the familiar mammal. They are not a surviving population of a native, nocturnal species, but feral escapees or irresponsibly-abandoned animals now free to maraud the human habitations of our fair city, leaving destruction […]