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BC 2022 : 2022-07-15 : Coquitlam River Part 2, Frankie’s Kits

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Type	Name	Service Provider	Confirmation	Location	Cost	Notes	Actions
Camp	Doug’s yard in Port Coquitlam			Port Coquitlam	$0.00

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This morning Brent said he hear what he thought were multiple raccoons in the yard. He heard noises from multiple locations as well as chittering and grunting sounds. I’ve been learning a little about raccoons since we got here - we have to share the back yard with Frankie Five Fingers so I thought it was a good idea. One of the first nights we were here I heard some grunting sounds near the tent. I looked up raccoon sounds and the internet says they make grunting sounds to announce their presence. Brent and I had assumed that Frankie is a female - Brent thought he saw some protruding nipples on her. At least once a day she comes across the street, then into the neighbor’s yard, and over the fence to where Doug’s compost bins are. If there’s anything worth eating in the bins she’ll help herself. I really regret being too slow to get a pic that time that she came up with a complete bagel in her mouth. Then, she’ll keep going in the same direction, leaving Doug’s yard out the back beside the tarped truck. She always moves slowly and methodically, and occasionally, she will approach us in the back yard until we yell and/or gesture at her. She’s never acted even a little bit aggressively. Since Brent told me what he heard last night, I started wondering if the ‘multiple raccoons’ he heard were Frankie and her kits. So I looked up raccoon mothers. What the internet says is that kits are born in the spring and stay exclusively in the den for about two months. Then the mom starts taking them out on foraging expeditions. I’m wondering if what Brent heard was a foraging expedition with Frankie taking her kits out. I’m also wondering if the reason she has tried approaching us is to see how we would react and make sure we wouldn’t attack her (or her kits). The longer we’re in Poco the bolder Frankie gets. She keeps approaching me, and one time was just a few inches away before I spotted her. I wonder if she can sense that I feel a lot of compassion for her and would prefer to feed her, even though, for her own safety I put the run on her with a broom instead. One of her eyes is bad but she keeps coming up to me and looking up at me with her one eye beseeching, ‘Please help a mama out!’ I wish I could do more, Frankie, but the best I can do for you is to try to keep you leery of humans. <3
Brent and I went for another walk along the Coquitlam River today then went on a quest for a Tim Horton’s. We found a Tim’s but then had frosties from Wendy’s instead.

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This morning Brent said he hear what he thought were multiple raccoons in the yard. He heard noises from multiple locations as well as chittering and grunting sounds.

I’ve been learning a little about raccoons since we got here - we have to share the back yard with Frankie Five Fingers so I thought it was a good idea.

One of the first nights we were here I heard some grunting sounds near the tent. I looked up raccoon sounds and the internet says they make grunting sounds to announce their presence.

Brent and I had assumed that Frankie is a female - Brent thought he saw some protruding nipples on her. At least once a day she comes across the street, then into the neighbor’s yard, and over the fence to where Doug’s compost bins are. If there’s anything worth eating in the bins she’ll help herself. I really regret being too slow to get a pic that time that she came up with a complete bagel in her mouth. Then, she’ll keep going in the same direction, leaving Doug’s yard out the back beside the tarped truck. She always moves slowly and methodically, and occasionally, she will approach us in the back yard until we yell and/or gesture at her. She’s never acted even a little bit aggressively.

Since Brent told me what he heard last night, I started wondering if the ‘multiple raccoons’ he heard were Frankie and her kits. So I looked up raccoon mothers. What the internet says is that kits are born in the spring and stay exclusively in the den for about two months. Then the mom starts taking them out on foraging expeditions. I’m wondering if what Brent heard was a foraging expedition with Frankie taking her kits out. I’m also wondering if the reason she has tried approaching us is to see how we would react and make sure we wouldn’t attack her (or her kits).

The longer we’re in Poco the bolder Frankie gets. She keeps approaching me, and one time was just a few inches away before I spotted her. I wonder if she can sense that I feel a lot of compassion for her and would prefer to feed her, even though, for her own safety I put the run on her with a broom instead. One of her eyes is bad but she keeps coming up to me and looking up at me with her one eye beseeching, ‘Please help a mama out!’ I wish I could do more, Frankie, but the best I can do for you is to try to keep you leery of humans. <3

Brent and I went for another walk along the Coquitlam River today then went on a quest for a Tim Horton’s. We found a Tim’s but then had frosties from Wendy’s instead.

Photos

Stumpy McStumpface
Fish art

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