It was the biggest raccoon Jake had ever seen. It was also, it turned out, the last one he ever saw.It was as big as a small bear, and fat. Even sitting down the thing came up to his waist. It also looked like it was sick."Don't touch the animals," his mom told him. "You can throw them crackers, but don't go near them." But she was off talking to the campground hosts and twenty feet the away the raccoon was coughing and hacking like it had something stuck in its throat.Jake couldn't help himsel
The biggest raccoon he ever saw
By: Strega
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The sign on the tree read "Don't feed the bears." Sharon ignored it.She'd talked to the nice retiree couple working as campground stewards and they said they hardly ever had bear trouble here. Twenty years ago, sure, but then they replaced the dumpsters with bear-proof ones and put in metal food lockers at every campsite. With no easy food to scavenge the bears mostly stopped showing up. The signs were a relic of earlier times.They were too high in the Sierras for thieving raccoons to be a probl
It's always too late to ask
By: Strega
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