Existence-is-a-curse2021 - Idk-something

I love how this is an elaborate demand for content but also a wonderful and clear way on how to explain to people why y’all shouldn’t be feeding wildlife

Why raccoons start roaming your trash bins at home. An allegory.

Imagine you're a raccoon. Doesn't have to be a special one. Just your usual stinky fat feral biting kind of raccoon.

People come into the woods and offer you plenty of nutrients. At first you, as a raccoon are a bit skittish. This people nice? This people bringing food. Good people!

You and your feral stinky friends live in utter paradise for weeks, because that one person keeps coming back and offers you the best treats. Your raccoon friend even discovers that person had left offering earlier and you can still feed from that too.

Person seems happy to provide. Perfect. Right? You get fed, they get happy purring balls of fur.

And then all of a sudden, person doesn't come anymore. But raccoon hungry and raccoon used to nutrients. Stomach owy and grumbling because...where the nutrients?

For a while you raccoons just survive on our stuff you find to eat but everything is ewww, the other stuff was better.

You realize there are other people leaving offerings, in the outskirts of the forest and you stinky raccoon and your stinky friends find them. And it tastes just as good. Must be the same nutrient from the same person!

But one day, even these people stop bringing the good stuff. It's said, the person who brought the offerings initially told every friend of theirs to stop feeding the raccoons.

You raccoons are now not only stinky and desperate and hungry, you're also a little mad. You unlearned to eat something else but the nutrients THIS person gave you.

So, what's the next step if the person doesn't come feed you, his friends won't feed you and it's become hard to survive in an environment that's become scarce and unpalatable?

Right.

You will leave the forest and invade the neighborhood, you start rioting in their trash bins desperately looking for the nutrients.

Now they even lock their trash away from you and that's the point where feral raccoons will try to get in your house and even put up a fight with a house cat or maybe a chihuahua.

It could all be so easy to keep feeding the raccoons where they initially were. Just saying.

I have officially decided I will make a compilation of Basil in The Athena because of him in this specific segment