A few years ago, in Toronto, the Animal Services workers were very busy and took over twelve hours to pick up a dead raccoon on a downtown sidewalk. People began building a memorial shrine to it, with cards, candles, flowers, etc. A city councilor kept urging Animal Services to hurry up, but people were having a lot of fun with it. https://www.boredpanda.com/dead-raccoon-memorial-shrine-mourning-deadraccoonto-toronto/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
But she has been saved from the open flames!