u/hxcbimbo

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I'm sure some of you have already heard about the devastating "Bench fire" happening now out on the warm springs reservation just over mount Hood. Many native families have had their homes burned to the ground and are displaced and sleeping in their vehicles near Madras. If you have ever been thru the area you know how beautiful it is and how sweet and good the people are! They need help! This should be much bigger news! They are asking for cash donations to rebuild, have safe lodgings and for things like water,pet food and other very necessary supplies! I put in the photo slides the direct ways to support people that I could find as well as my own Venmo at the end As I will be buying up and dropping off supplies myself. Don't let them go without in an already devastating time!

Okay I know this is gonna sound crazy but it's absolutely true. At 12:40am I was driving on 60th and Burnside,as we were turning I happened to look down 60th because movement caught my eye and I saw an animal. My first thought was cat,dog, coyote or raccoon BUT then I noticed the size of it and the way it moved. It's body was big and long,bigger than any cat or raccoon and it didn't run or scurry across the road,it HOPPED. as it hopped it's tail which was as long or longer than the body and thick just kinda flounced out behind it. In like 4 big hops it had hopped across the road and went into this small construction site! I yelled "MONKEY?! LEMUR!?" and my partner swerved the car and we spun the block and went down 60th to look,only had a phone light so we drove around but couldn't find anything! I've lived here all my life and never seen anything that looked like that. So my question to you all is someone missing a lemur or a monkey or do we have a new cryptid on our hands? And yes before anyone asks I'm stone cold sober.

****EDIT: THE ANIMAL HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED!

thanks to "gorobotkillkill", it was an extremely large male fisher cat! which is apparently endangered. I may contact some wildlife group because they are not supposed to be in a city, hopefully it can be found and safely relocated to the deep woods 🙏

***EDIT TO EDIT: I have contacted Oregon department of fish and wildlife and will only tell them where it was if they won't harm it. Rock on freaky weasel