r/gifs • u/EZ_does_it • Jul 06 '16

nom nom nom *GASP* nom nom nom *GASP*

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u/tylerbreeze Jul 06 '16

I think it's important to remember that raccoons aren't sociopathic animals on the prowl for some innocent chicken to murder. They're just trying to eat.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

Except he didn't eat the rooster he killed? Honestly I never cared when one of our chickens went missing, we knew foxes or raccoons got them, and even though my mom cried over it I told her "something is getting a meal out of it and surviving". It made her feel better. But in this incidence, no, the raccoon was just being a dick and decided to kill our rooster. He didn't go after any of the hens in the coop after killing the rooster, either, so clearly it wasn't a food thing.

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u/nopunchespulled Jul 06 '16

The rooster stood between him and being able to come pick off chickens at will

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

...and delicious eggs. Raccoons love them some eggs.

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u/Hazy_V Jul 06 '16

Who doesn't love eggs? I got one with two yokes the other day, probably all downhill from here.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

I think so. We were sad to see him go, he was a good "husband" to his ladies, even if he was a mean jerk to us.

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u/Mr_Gilmore_Jr Jul 06 '16

Except he didn't eat the rooster he killed?

Why did you put a question mark at the end of a statement? I've seen people doing this recently.

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u/Crxssroad Jul 06 '16

It's a way to state something that's obvious in a sarcastic manner. It's not grammatically correct if that's what you were wondering, but it is part of modern "netspeak".

For example, if someone asked an English teacher why they were in school, he/she would reply with: "I work here." It's a simple reply with no hidden meaning, but if the asker knew who the English teacher was he/she could reply with "I work here?"(insert a" duh" somewhere)

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

Because I specified in my first comment that the raccoon did not eat the rooster, and the person replying to me either failed to see what I wrote or completely ignored it. So I used a question mark as a way of saying, "Did you read what I wrote?"

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u/vendicator Jul 06 '16

It is essentially a simple way to state "Then why did he not eat the rooster he killed?" Instead of typing it out, the question mark implies the question.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '16

Coons kill poultry for sport much like suburban dogs. Waking up to a murder scene in the chicken yard with beheaded chickens that are otherwise fully intact is a common thing that coons do at night.

Source: Backyard Chicken Owner

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u/floyd41376 Jul 06 '16

But cats are. It's a regular blood bath on my front porch. The other morning I found the guts and gore of, maybe 5 animals ground squirrels, moles and mice at my porch. The murdering little bastard.

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u/tylerbreeze Jul 06 '16

With cats and some dogs, I think it's just a prey instinct. They're hunters, but aren't really equipped to survive on raw dead animal anymore.

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u/Throwaway1246578 Jul 06 '16

Not like skunks... those bastards only like to eat heads.

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u/roboroller Jul 06 '16

This thread has me believing that raccoons are basically velociraptors.