Ok, I'm an Animal lover but I think this is too much and OTT, what ya thunk ?

@cherokeepatti good idea

@usher I’ve seen older men sit with their chihuahua’s in their overalls in the vet’s waiting room, and also in some businesses.

@cherokeepatti Mid life crises.. lol

@usher I’ve seen a couple of younger men in stores with a half-grown raccoon laying on their forearm showing it off. This is Oklahoma, for some reason the rednecks love to show off raccoons.

@cherokeepatti not sure the reason, but if I was a psychologist I would say it's a form of insecurity

@usher I think they were just proud of their pet that was different from anyone else’s pet....probably a good conversation starter.

@cherokeepatti yes, some insecurities come from the need to be accepted whether through conversation or admiration. Some insecurities are perfectly natural behavior.

@usher well we had a record-setting ice storm here the last week of October and the electric companies were calling linemen from other states to help get the power back on. There was one lineman that drove from Wichita with his pet raccoon and somehow it escaped from his truck, it was a 40-pound raccoon, apparently he fed it too much. Anyway they put it in the newspaper, on Facebook and other social media asking anyone who spotted a huge raccoon in the city to call the man. One woman said her son’s cat got tore up pretty bad one day and figured it was that raccoon. But who knows.

@cherokeepatti wow, I can believe that a Racoon is ferocious in combat..hmmm, the Wichita linesman ? There's a song there somewhere..