The summer of Jimothy: Why we're still talking about the viral raccoon

It all began with a five-second clip.Kiana Hall, a 33-year-old Seattle resident, spotted an oddly shaped raccoon in her neighborhood on July 13 and pulled out her phone to capture video of the animal as it scurried across the sidewalk."What am I looking at?" Hall says in the footage she posted on Instagram. In the caption, she dubbed the creature Jimothy. "He just looked like a Jimothy to me," she later wrote in the comments.Wildlife experts were quick to point out that Jimothy likely has short spine syndrome, a rare congenital condition that causes an animal to have a shortened spinal column and a rounder appearance.Jimothy became an overnight sensation, with Hall's video racking up millions of views and prompting a wave of other reported sightings by area residents.It wasn't long before