Hey there, little guy! With that cutie little face! I want to snuggle your little fuzzy guy self!! Seriously, why oh why can't raccoon babies be the cuddly pets I want them to be? I understand they've got rather sharp claws and that, as they get older, they're not really the kind of animal you'd want to tangle with. BUT LOOK AT THAT FACE!
Apparently the guy who filmed this took care of the, er, raccoon babymama at some point last year, and so she decided to bring her babies back to meet him (probably helped that he had dishes of water and tasty racooon treats all over his porch). Coincidentally, I once dated a guy who had a raccoon babymama living under his back porch, and when those babies started exploring (just like these guys!) it was all I could do not to scoop one up and put a little baby bonnet on its furry head. (Actually, the guy I was dating wouldn't let me. Should have been a relationship red flag!)
Anyway, since I'll most likely never have a baby raccoon for a pet, the only way I can console myself is by watching this video repeatedly. Daily. Hourly, perhaps.
Check this out and you'll understand. Wait until the part where they go inside the guy's house, omg!! And the other part where that one baby raccoon is trying to eat the slippery animal cracker!!!
You see? You see what I'm talking about?! I wish I could get paid to feed baby raccoons animal crackers all day long.
Do you have raccoon visitors at your house? (Are they as cute as these babies?)
Image via bradgillette/YouTube
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It's actually a misconception that if they're out during the day, that they're automatically sick. Yes, rabid raccoons will appear during the day, but healthy ones will ocassionally as well. Especially when the mother has to gather more food for her growing babies. We have raccoons at our house and we usually only see them at night, but I hear them chitter chattering from under our deck sometimes. I researched it because I wanted to make sure it was safe for my dog to go out, and unless the raccoon is stumbling, frazzled looking and just acting very strangely, then it's fine. I agree with the author. This was a really cute video :-) yes they are wild animals but how cute would it be if they were domesitcated??
Oh my goodness they are SO cute!!
Animals are not menaces, they were here first!
If you feed and or let raccoons live anywhere in your yard or under your deck, you're asking for trouble. I live on a farm and they're destructive and very mean animals AND they carry a deadly disease and if you don't find the raccoon who bit or scratched you and get it tested, you'll have to undergo rabies shots.
I'll bet you are city people who have never seen a raccoon in the wild or kill your chickens and eat your eggs and tear a cat to pieces. They are OUR nightmare. They aren't "cute" like on this minute long video. What do you think happens when these all grow up?
They were here first CPN322? Would you let a rattlesnake, bear or coyote live under your deck and be around your kids or animals? OMG!
Yes JAFE- agree. And Jill, roundworm can be inhaled. And it can persist in the soil for years. And its not adults who are at risk of "eating raccoon poop". Its little kids, putting their hands and other things in their mouths while playing in the sandbox the raccoon walked thru, or after touching the swing it pooped on. And no, it can't be killed with bleach. Granted, its very rare for people to get roundworm, (perhaps because most people have enough sense to not feed raccoons on their porch?). But why increase the risk? And of course, there is rabies to consider. I don't hate raccoons. I live on the edge of several hundred acres of woods and there are plenty of them out there. But I respect wildlife enough (not to mention my neighbors and their pets and livestock!) to not encourage animals who are known reservoirs of deadly diseases to eat and create latrines in or near human habitats.