Awww!
Baby Raccoon Invasion Is So Ridiculously Cute I Can't Stand It! (VIDEO)
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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Lynette
I USED to love raccoons and would feel so bad for them when I saw dead ones on the road UNTIL I went camping. There I was w/ my little sister and no car. We put the food in a safe place. In the middle of the night I woke up to them making scary sounds all around us. When they finally left I discovered they ate all my food except the PB&J. Luckily I had the bread in my suit case in the tent(we were supposed to have a cabin, but that fell through). So for 2 days till my boyfriend could help me all we ate was PB & J. Evil little fur balls!
JAFE
I hate these little bastoids. In the last two weeks they've broken 6 bird feeders and destroyed my flower garden. They are menaces and are now being live trapped and moved far far away but I think my husband shoots them and lies to me. Which I have to be okay with. We have kids and pets around and when we get invaded like this, it's what we have to do.
SierraLynn
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gravercem
While I think they look cute, I know better they are wild animals that do a lot of damage. The problem of people feeding them is they then think they can get food from other houses to. Their droppings can carry disease, not to mention how mean they can become. We have had raccoons eat wiring, destroy siding, not to mention the mess they make if they get in the trash cans outside. I laughed right with my kids when we seen one swinging on a swing in our back yard but was not laughing the next morning when I seen the damage to the swing , or trash scattered across the yard.
countrygirl670
It was a relationship red flag- for him. He was probably incredulous that you would even consider picking up one of these disease vectors. Raccoons are destructive, mean and often carry rabies. They are not cute, even as babies. And if I lived next door to this a$$hole putting out food for them, I would report him to the city.
GlowWorm889
Yeah, they're cute until they start going through your trash, making a mess and then getting stuck inside the Dumpster.
twinfish63
Very enjoyable - and relatable - column, Jacqueline! And that video should come with a warning: "May induce spontaneous cutegasms." ;-)
Jill282
JAFE
You do know Jill that raccoons are nocturnal animals . IF they are out eating and wandering around during the day, they're sick and can give you rabies. Roundworm would be the very least of my worries.