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Anonymous
My friend's mom did wildlife rehab for almost 20 years, and raccoons were her specialty. Even the wild ones that had only been around humans for a little while were total sweethearts. Yes, they are like ferrets on steroids, but they're still awesome animals. They would sit on the couch and watch tv with her dachshund, they *never* bothered her chickens, and they never hurt anyone, ever. Sometimes she would hear about a raccoon that had bitten someone, and they'd chop off its head and send it to a lab to see if it had rabies, and they never did. Whoops, sorry Mr Dead Raccoon.
I would recommend against feeding wild ones that come around your house, though. Our neighbors fed raccoons on their back porch for several years, and then moved away. The new people who moved in didn't know about the "arrangement", and the raccoons tore the screen door off the hinges, clawed right through the wooden back door and trashed their kitchen.
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