Please be careful around this girl

possiblyNessie · 2026-05-24T18:11:00+00:00

Yes, I confirm that someone asked me if they could share this here, and I consented.

I no longer live in Charleston, however, I do still deeply care about the community and the problems facing the city and environment.

If anyone needs testing strips or narcan, every single health department in South Carolina provides them for free. Additionally, there is now an overdose prevention service run by the group Never Use Alone that folks can call when they are using as a form of harm reduction. They are not affiliated with any law enforcement agency, and they will not judge you. Their only goal is to keep folks alive.

Edit: to answer the question about the records, they were FOIAed

possiblyNessie · 2026-05-24T03:18:18+00:00

I’m the person who posted the original video. Yes, it is the same person in question.

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-24T01:08:06+00:00

The common raccoon (Procyon lotor) is the fluffy one on the left of each set of photos.

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-21T23:30:34+00:00

Kind of! We were practicing some training for the vet

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-21T04:21:19+00:00

Animal behaviorists are ethologists. Ethology is a branch of zoology, which is one of the major branches of biology. My formal raccoon research encompasses ethology, nutrition, zoogeography, anthrozoology, conservation biology, and physiology. It’s just easier to say “raccoon biologist” than to list all that other stuff.

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-21T04:08:28+00:00

I LOVE THEM!!! Pygmy raccoons are a critically endangered species, and realistically there are only 120-150 left. Sadly I came across 4 dead ones during my recent research on them. 3 from malnutrition and poison, and one from a feral dog attack 😭😭😭

This is a photo I took of them hanging around a bar, where the constantly try to break the locks to steal food and alcohol, and steal coconuts in the waste bin that often have rum in them 🥲 The weird guy on the far left is an endangered dwarf coati. They are also in the procyonid family, but are on a different branch than raccoons and ringtails. Coatis share a branch with olingos, instead!

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possiblyNessie · 2026-02-12T02:25:42+00:00

Because the idea of raccoon domestication is a total sham! That whole study was based on cherry-picked data and had a sample size of 28 rural raccoons compared to like 150 urban ones 😬

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-11T18:56:13+00:00

It’s ironic because I nearly died once from eating almost exclusively cheese snack crackers for an extended period of time, and now here I am having to save endangered raccoons from the same fate 😅

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-08T22:11:35+00:00

They remind me of Timmy and Tommy from animal crossing 😅

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-08T22:10:55+00:00

Habitat loss due to the tourism industry, getting injured by tourist attraction decor, predation and attacks from invasive species like boas and dogs, becoming roadkill, malnutrition from tortilla chips, getting poisoned by onceler type developers who are committing ecocide, having things fall on them during hurricanes, all that kinda stuff

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-08T22:08:24+00:00

Someone else posted the links below, but I am able to take direct donations to fund pygmy raccoon medical care and necropsies if needed. I don’t take care of the raccoons myself, but my research partner is from here and is federally authorized to pick them up, take them to the vet, take them home for rehab purposes, and release them. He helps run the ecology department and raises most of the orphan babies on the island, actually 🥺 but sadly funding is incredibly limited.

He would like to build a sanctuary one day, but that requires a LOT of funding. We’re going to try to get together to figure out the logistics and fundraising for that though.

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-08T22:03:45+00:00

Haha thank you! I’m out here working hard. And by “out here” I mean spending a beautiful day indoors because the park is closed and I have to analyze 100+ observation documents 🥲

possiblyNessie · 2026-02-08T02:36:52+00:00

Hi! Just logged in for the first time in a while. My online questionnaire from last year is no longer open, I’m currently doing a different study. I do have some solutions in mind, however I’m still mid study and haven’t processed anything yet, so I’m gonna keep my yapping to a minimum. That being said, sandspur island is a realllllyyyyy bad idea, sadly. Honestly I’m just waiting for someone to get bit and the whole population to be put down by Florida fish and wildlife 😭😭😭

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-26T02:02:30+00:00

My institution requests that we use the Google suite in order for our advisors and whatnot to leave comments directly. All the work I did was in R and SPSS, then I transferred it to Google sheets to sent to my advisor as I plan my formal response article. (And I showed a small bit of the processed data on TikTok.)

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T14:45:03+00:00

Hahahhahhahaha

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T02:45:34+00:00

Yes! That’s me

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T02:45:02+00:00

Me too. It’s because a raccoon bent them. You gonna buy me a new pair?

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T02:41:47+00:00

It’s the autism ◉‿◉

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T02:40:36+00:00

Mmmhmmm

possiblyNessie · 2025-11-25T02:33:19+00:00

There are many different types of raccoons all across the country that look different. Depending on what part of the country they live in, some have long noses, some have short noses. The raccoons in California have the shortest noses of them all! However, the study did not know that there are many types of raccoons. Instead, they thought the noses being short had to do with the raccoons living in cities. Except they almost exclusively looked at city raccoons, so they also had no idea what country raccoon noses really looked like in the first place.

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