Sperm Count

Heather was here with the kids and while we were talking she said "You ever read Facebook?" I told her I don't. Heather takes portions of the blog and puts them on Facebook. I've never been on there. She said somebody posted that there was a survey or something similar where either people or raccoons had lower sperm counts when they ate too many hot dogs. Seemed like they were suggesting or indicating that the real or possible reason that the mother raccoons were having less babies was not my summation that they don't need to have very many babies anymore because nearly all the babies are surviving. But the real reason was low sperm count from the fathers.

Well riddle me this Batman. The only time of the year the male raccons show up is right after the babies are born. Both mom and dad will show up and escort them to the porch where there are six or seven hotdogs between them. Normally mom comes up and eats the hot dogs and then let's the babies come up. In this world mom has to survive. Is she doesn't, babies odds dominish considerably. After the first week or ten days I never see the fathers anymore. By this time mom is in charge and she brings the babies each evening. During the winter when the food supply should be at it's weakest raccoons hardly show up at all. By then they have learned how to eat on their own. We were cutting a trail from the boat ramp to the creek bed and I was surprised by all the raccoon tracks at the creek bed. Fish is their primary diet.

I don't see sperm count as an issue here.