well... well... maybe ours are just starving. so there!
but seriously, now i wish i could find out if there are different types of raccoons. it could also be they don't have winter coats yet. though i suppose you'll say yours are fluffier all summer long too. heh.
how could does your little town up there get in teh winter? boise is kind of mild, but we're a lot colder up in the mountains, of course, and i think the raccoons up there are probably thicker too. we get them on our back porch up there too, though i haven't gotten any good pics of them (they run much faster, though kai's dog killed a young one late one night right on the back porch. :/)
well honestly they are poofy all year long, although a bit less in the summer. Recently it's very hard to say what winter is like, it's different every year. People around here talk about the way winter was about 15 years ago as being a kind of predictble thing. It's a global warming in affect. cold is kind of relitive too. If things were as they should we would have a fairly cold winter, but not supper cold with snow. As it is now some years are cold but with very little snow and others warm, with lots of slush.
i just went with wolf's class to the boise botanical garden, and i noticed they have two different kinds of rosemary growing. there is only one kind that is supposed to be able to survive snow, and it's always iffy. but the other one, called Tuscany Blue, isn't supposed to survive at all, yet they had it and it was pretty big. i asked them about it, and they said, "well, our winters have been pretty warm the past few years, and this coming one is supposed to be warm again. but all we need is one really cold one like we used to have, and it will probably be gone." anyway, proof of global warming. also saw an english report that animals from warmer climates have been moving up about a hundred miles north of where they have always been, due to warmer temperatures.
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but seriously, now i wish i could find out if there are different types of raccoons. it could also be they don't have winter coats yet. though i suppose you'll say yours are fluffier all summer long too. heh.
how could does your little town up there get in teh winter? boise is kind of mild, but we're a lot colder up in the mountains, of course, and i think the raccoons up there are probably thicker too. we get them on our back porch up there too, though i haven't gotten any good pics of them (they run much faster, though kai's dog killed a young one late one night right on the back porch. :/)
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Recently it's very hard to say what winter is like, it's different every year. People around here talk about the way winter was about 15 years ago as being a kind of predictble thing. It's a global warming in affect. cold is kind of relitive too. If things were as they should we would have a fairly cold winter, but not supper cold with snow. As it is now some years are cold but with very little snow and others warm, with lots of slush.
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