Word: raccoons
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...know an autobiography is in trouble when its best chapter -- funny, intimate, emotionally engaged -- is about the pet raccoon the author loved and lost decades ago. You know a biography is in trouble when sentences like this start popping up: "From the comfort of his foreplay to his gentle whispers, he gave something that was almost at one with female consciousness." Could we see a footnote on that...
...laws to prosecute poachers in national parks, but state statutes vary notoriously. Wyoming, for instance, regulates hunters down to the number of shotgun pellets allowed in heavily hunted areas; while Alabama's idiosyncratic "coon on a log" law is more liberal, permitting the maintenance of up to 10 captured raccoons during a season for use in demonstrating "the abilities of the raccoon to resist being retrieved or taken from a log in a lake by a dog and the ability of the respective dogs to retrieve raccoons...
...furious" raccoon exhibits extremely aggressive behavior and may be foaming at the mouth. Such rabid animals may also let out unusual high-pitched sounds...
...also urged students to avoid any contact with raccoons and to report raccoon sitings to the Harvard Police Department...
There is no way to counteract the spread of rabies within the raccoon population, according to McCabe...