Community Chat

[We rescue cats]

Poor lil fella, I love 'our' racoons but they are mischievous for sure!

[songbird]

They can be aggressive.  My sister had an encounter with one.  Taking out the trash.  He growled at her. She just tossed the bag and ran back into the house.

[MorningLover]

HANOVER, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - The raccoon broke into the store through the ceiling during the early morning on Nov. 29. Virginia ABC said the animal damaged the security system, triggering a power outage alert from the security company.

An animal control officer safely secured the “very intoxicated raccoon” and took it to a shelter to recover. 

After several hours of rest, the raccoon did not show signs of injury and was released back into the wild. 

[We rescue cats]

I hope they released it near that store. Raccoons are territorial.

They do growl, it's a defensive action, but they will scratch or bite if provoked so better safe than sorry because they are known rabies carriers.

[Elodie2]

Saw something on the news recently, prior to this story, about how urban raccoons are becoming domesticated and may be pets one day.

[JYWilliams]

They showed that on the news a few days ago. Poor fellow was so drunk he eventually passed out. They relocated him after he came to. I'm sure he had a big hang over

[LyndaGee]

When I was a kid, fed some raccoons who visited daily.  They were cute and would do "tricks" on the back porch railings with their narrow "feet."  But they started to come in the daytime.  A teacher to told me that was a no-no, so I reluctantly stopped.

[Quse]

Over the summer, I looked out into the backyard one night to see EIGHT raccoons in the backyard. Without my glasses on, I thought they were little bears They would hop/hunt (grubs and worms, I think) and sing to each other. I would hear them singing to each other, babies and Mommas, while they hop-hunted, and sometimes get up in the middle of the night to watch them. In the morning, they'd leave and go back to wherever they lived.

[Puppy Lips]

A week or so ago when I was taking our two dogs out for "last pee," once outside they both stopped cold and stared in the same direction.  The dogs were as still as can be.  I could not figure out what they were looking at.  It was dark outside.  But as my eyes adjusted, I could see way back along our white fence line, something walking along the fence.  As it got closer to our side of the yard, I could see it was a raccoon. Then out of some weeds, another one popped out.  They ran into the woods behind my neighbor's house.  To this day I am still amazed that they both saw the raccoon in the dark.  Maybe they smelled it first.

[Estellee]

That little feller created quite a rucus. They are so cute, from a distance LOL