A happy incongruity

[otterfamily]

I saw two otters at the pier yesterday! It was after sunset, so I couldn't confirm the otters' identity, but the large brown individual and the slightly smaller black-furred one sure looked like Mystery Male and Slick to me. No one would be happier if it were true, but it leaves me with an incongruous situation I can't really make sense of yet. Could there actually have been two different robust, brown-furred elder males with compromised dentition and identical flesh-wounded extremities living in adjacent populations in this area all along? That's not a very parsimonious explanation for recent events, but maybe, just maybe, it's true...