Older animals are usually surly and ill-tempered.- That can be a sentence in itself as well as the second part. Accordingly it is unwise to attempt to pet a grown raccoon. All the semicolon is doing is combining two sentences to make them one.
Answer:
I believe it is option 4 the bottom one.
Explanation:
Now I am unable to read all of the first statement but with what I can read it states that they had to use Satire to get there freedom which supports message 2 but I could be wrong.
Answer:
It is more correct to put "don’t get me excited like this".
I hope this helped at all.
I would pick D as the answer