by Lyn Hancock | Dec 21, 2022 | Blogs
THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD When the Stanley Park Zoo in Vancouver gave me Tabasco, an orphan raccoon to look after, I was living in an apartment at the bottom of Simon Fraser University while working on my graduate degrees. (The reason I left... 
by Lyn Hancock | Oct 31, 2022 | Blogs
I have had SEALS IN MY SLEEPING BAG and RACCOONS IN MY PARKA, now there’s a NAKED LADY IN MY WATER PIPE. I found her shortly after I bought my home on Nanoose Bay. Like many of my life experiences, I bought this Garden of Eden on the spur of the moment, just like I... 
by Lyn Hancock | Oct 17, 2022 | Blogs
THERE’S A RACCOON IN MY APARTMENT When the Vancouver Zoo in Stanley Park asked me to look after Tabasco after her mother was shot for raising her family in the attic of a Vancouver house, I was living on the third floor of a no-pet apartment below Simon Fraser... 
by Lyn Hancock | Oct 14, 2022 | Blogs
THERE’S A RACCOON ON MY PROMOTION TOUR Chance and coincidence play big parts in my life. Tabasco wasn’t my first raccoon orphan. Many years earlier, I was about to go on a little rubber boat ride for thousands of miles between Victoria, British Columbia and the... 
by Lyn Hancock | Oct 4, 2022 | Blogs
Today October 4, 2022 is World Animal Day or so my computer announces. Well, the animals in my life are much more enticing and life-giving than current useless hours and days sitting at a computer. I am proud of my self-given title: Mother Theresa of the Orphan Wild...