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    Meet Jimothy the viral raccoon with short spine syndrome that has taken the internet by storm and who has become a Seattle icon
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    Meet Jimothy the viral raccoon with short spine syndrome that has taken the internet by storm and who has become a Seattle icon


    Meet Jimothy the viral raccoon with short spine syndrome that has taken the internet by storm and who has become a Seattle icon



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    1. ImWhatsInTheRedBox on

      Yeah, no some asshat is definitely going to try to capture him, or worse, just because.

    4. StallionSurprise on

      I hate that this is now online because the next time we read about this, some dickhead will have done something stupid to this little guy.

      Internet ruins everything

    6. BreweryRabbit on

      Oh man, our local cryptid is everywhere now. Weird to see him in like every corner of pop culture within a week.

    9. boobookittyfuwk on

      I read that he wasn’t seen for awhile and people got worried, but then he was spotted recently and seems to be doing great.

      I want to love this fella, and I do but damn hes creepy looking haha

    10. spider3407 on

      I closed my Facebook account a few years ago, but I sure have missed her posts.

    11. Impossible-Pomelo-59 on

      I’m digging the new name “Jimberly” – have not heard this one yet…

    12. sp00kysista on

      Iā€™m proud of Jimothy and glad he had a wonderful and supportive family.Ā 

      As amusing as all this is, I hope somebody doesnā€™t try to catch or harm him.Ā 

    21. bookdrops on

      A raccoon biologist vlogger I watch said that
      Ā [Jimothy is probably in pain and will die young](
      https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da6viehtNzQ/
      ) but will still be happier living as a wild raccoon than in captivity. šŸ˜” The biologist also says that we will probably see increasing numbers of mutant raccoons because raccoon livers are very bad at filtering out toxic
      Ā chemicals from pollution and trash that cause fetal abnormalities.

    23. SindaFNRella4 on

      Can we just give a round of applause for Jimberly?! She could have ate him or abandoned him easily but she mommed so hard for her little koosh ball šŸ„¹šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ‘

    24. TheBewitchingWitch on

      I just did a Jimothy craft with my summer care kids as we are in the PNW!

    25. Jumping__Bean___ on

      I would do a lot of things for Jimothy… I mean, just look at him.

      ![gif](giphy|iXZCDXcbiTZ6oUoHfJ)

    27. thisonecassie on

      ohhhhhhhh so that’s why i’ve been seeing people talking about “jimothy” everywhere

    29. Dafedub on

      I saw one of these short spine syndrome, raccoons recently, my work and it looked like it was a baby that was abandoned because I didnā€™t see any other raccoons around in the area has frequent raccoons all the time and it was so sad because it looked like it was dying, and I tried calling wildlife support, but they couldnā€™t get a hold of anybody and it just had its head down and it was whimpering and almost looked like it was injured and could barely walk, and when it did walk, it was walking aimlessly and almost like it couldnā€™t see where it was walking because he had his head down, almost like maybe he was hit by a car or something, but it was so terribly sad and Iā€™m pretty sure he has passed away but yeah, Iā€™m pretty sure he did have the short spine syndrome and he was a pain, literally just ripped apart my heart watching that little guy die.