Indeed. I visited my cousin in Japan a few years ago, and they had a sizable tanuki (racoon dog) population where we stayed. They were too tame. You could just sit out back with a handful of slimjims and wait for one to come up and take it from your hand.
I was tempted to try to explain how that type of interaction is terrible for wildlife as it blunts their fear of humans and conditions them to consider humans as a food dispenser.
My personal philosophy is to leave animals alone, enjoy them from a comfortable distance, and keep all food and garbage out of their reach. It’s what I was taught as a Boy Scout, it makes sense to me from my own understanding of ecology and conservation, and it seems to minimize the impact animals and humans have on each other.
