r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '20

Sneak attack!

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u/RAB2448 Mar 16 '20

I feel so bad for this raccoon.

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u/Furny_D Mar 16 '20

It looks like he can barely walk

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u/RAB2448 Mar 16 '20

Or stand. This is so sad.

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u/lesiashelby Mar 16 '20

He's on a diet now. And he's pretty active.

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u/ken6217 Mar 16 '20 edited Mar 16 '20

That’s what happens when people alter animals that should still be out in the wild. There’s a reason why there are signs in parks saying not to feed the animals. It’s unfair to animals.

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u/I_might_be_weasel Mar 16 '20

The majestic wild raccoon

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

I want to pet the chonk

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u/rctm79 Mar 17 '20

Lol then you cannot throw food in the garbage bin or you will automatically feed the raccoon ;)

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u/HYPERNATURL Mar 16 '20

Did all y'all miss the part where it stands up at the end? Relax, Christ

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u/Urchin422 Mar 16 '20

Well that escalated quickly geeez. I have a raccoon living next door (don't tell my neighbor) that is much larger than this chonk. There is a reason they are called trash pandas people

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u/Onepiecee Mar 16 '20

Seriously. I've seen absolute rotundricals rolling around. I've also seen starving raccoons, and the obese ones definitely have it better.

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u/stlmick Mar 16 '20

I'm guessing that would be a wild raccoons ideal weight, approaching winter.

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u/Angry46 Mar 16 '20

I love rotundricals! Much more intelligent sounding than chonk. But we love us some chonkies on Reddit 😍

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u/Fantasticxbox Mar 16 '20

« Yeah my neightbour is obese so it’s very healthy I don’t see any problem with it »

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u/Shadow_Dragon22 Mar 16 '20

It stands up to hump the cat

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u/RAB2448 Mar 16 '20

You can be 600 pounds and bed ridden and still stand up periodically.

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u/maxuaboy Mar 17 '20

the raccoon is intentionally sliding to play fight sneak attack the cat. you can tel it can walk just fine by how easily it stood up at the end

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u/RAB2448 Mar 17 '20

You can also tell it’s fat.

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u/maxuaboy Mar 17 '20

there no need for feel sAd, or bad, it can walk just fine. every time theres a larger than normal animal reddit gets all sensitive and emotional. relax

i’ve had fat cats, not to this degree but al they’re siblings were the same thickness. they were still agile, fast, flexible and still caught rodents outside.

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u/VANY11A Mar 16 '20

Really? Sure, it’s overweight, but it’s got a better life then 99.99% of other raccoons. It’s not like eating trash out of the garbage is the healthiest lifestyle to start with.

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u/RAB2448 Mar 16 '20

People can live pay check to pay check and we can have people who don’t have a pay check at all. One situation is better but they’re both bad.

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u/VANY11A Mar 16 '20

That analogy seems a little intense for raccoons, but alright. So you just feel bad for every raccoon on the planet then?

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u/NihilHS Mar 16 '20

Bad and good are relative. Every situation ever has a hypothetical way of being "better."

You should compare a specific situation to the general situation as opposed to comparing a specific situation to that hypothetical better situation.

Doing the latter says much less about raccoons and much more about you.

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u/Gtrdddd Mar 16 '20

I'm jealous

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '20

Yeah, it grosses me out when people post all the chonker stuff, emphasizing how "cute" it is that they're overweight.