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It might be time to worry about a raccoon takeover of the city. Earlier today one of them outsmarted the humans, escaping their clutches after being caught on the roof of City Hall. 1010Wins reports back that "he quickly figured out his getaway—reaching up and bending back the top of the cage. He then got to the ground by climbing down some construction scaffolding on the back side of City Hall. He eluded animal control for more than half an hour as he crept along the bottom of the wall."
The 25-pounder's lucky streak ended, however, and he was caught a second time. His captors dubbed him Houdini, and authorities have said he's showing no sign of rabies.
Earlier this year a raccoon was spotted browsing the goods at John Varvatos, right before the Department of Health announced that rabies-infected raccoons (and other animals) may be romping around all five boroughs.
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They will kill him and he probably eats all the trash and eats in the park at city hall. shame.
If they were going to kill him they would not have bothered testing him for rabies.
Rabies tests can only be conducted by taking brain tissue. They kill them to test for rabies but if you read it shows no sign of rabies. The city and dept of parks drowns the raccoons.
The racoons in the city are a major problem. Rabies tests are much more important than any life of a racoon. The city needs to control this by killing some but not all of the population for control purposes. (humane killing methods would be preferred but not mandatory) The only other solution would be to transplant these nuisances to wooded areas outside of the city. That would be very expensive and I don't want my tax dollars wasted on something like that.
"...I don't want my tax dollars wasted on something like that."
Huh? You actually pay taxes? What about that workmans comp scam you have going for yourself? What's with that?
Raccoons take no pshidt because they wear tons of Alice Cooper eyeliner. They're too beefy to be bullied by pigeons; too street-smart to be sucked in by a carnivorous plant.
25 pounds? That's like a small horse!
Racism against the black race! Trying to incarcerate our brothers.
FTC2 may be right or wrong. Usually an animal is not killed unless there's been a human exposure, and quick diagnosis is needed. The procedure is microscopic exam of brain tissue for "Negri bodies", diagnostic of rabies. Shots for the humans are usually started no matter what if the speicies is a possible carrier. When they say "He's showing no sign of rabies", he's prob just being observed for the requisite period prior to release somewhere. If it's 25 lbs, probably a female. And sharing the AC workers' lunches. Not every capture ends in death, but the coyotes have a bad record.
"Negri bodies"? Racist.