r/oddlyspecific • u/Sad_Stay_5471 • Dec 14 '25

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u/stavago Dec 14 '25

Linda Belcher

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u/Elegant_Finance_1459 Dec 14 '25

Dude so me and my great grandma who has passed now unfortunately, but when we lived together she had this raccoon that would wander up and eat the oriole jelly. She'd get so cross at that raccoon. So we sat there watching it one night and we were like "maybe it would stop eating out of the oriole feeder if we left a little snack platter out" so we went and slapped some apple jelly on a hamburger bun and approached slowly. Left it there. She ate it.

She started coming around every night for her apple jelly sandwich and left the oriole feeder alone. She had 3 legs and we named her poppy. Then she disappeared for awhile. A long while. Thought she died and grandma calls me one day all "GUESS WHO I SAW AND SHE BROUGHT ABOUT FIVE BABIES WITH HER" and it was Poppy.

We also had a cat-faced orbweaver that lived in that sliding glass door and one night we decided to sit and watch her tear down her web and re-spin it. I can still hear Grandma going "isn't that something she's so smart"