Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/02/raccoon-leaves-his-trash-eatin.html
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He tries his best to fit in, but washing kibble in the water dish is such a faux-pas.
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Just a rabies epidemic? You wish.
If they succeed in creating cat-raccoon hybrids, we’re royally screwed.
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What is the narrator’s language? Seems slavic/russian to me, then the question would be, is that a slavic family living on the North American continent, or, an North American endemic raccoon living in Europe as a pet? If it is the latter, then, probably no rabies, and the raccoon would have to be friends with whatever fauna is over there. To me, it seems this is a raccoon pet.
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It’s a cat rule that if you’re not cool enough to hang out by yourself, you’re never going to be cool enough to hang out with the cats.
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They are invasive in Europe and Japan:
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They do know all about human food packages. I’ve known them to steal unopened bags of cookies, from inside a cupboard in the kitchen, and take them outside to open them and eat them.
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My wife had a big, fat, strongly-marked tabby who had had the end of his tail bitten off by a opossum. Every now and then she’d go outside to look for him and find him hanging out peacefully by the garbage can with a pack of raccoons who’d clearly taken him in as one of their own. We were sure he was going to wind up coming home with tattoos and a smoking habit.
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They should just be grateful it’s not a raccoon dog…
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Yes raccoons do have a habit of washing their food before eating. Sometimes to their detriment.
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Watching that I was at first thinking there is something really wrong with that raccoon - maybe rabies is a serious concern.
But then I realized that I’m just used to cats and how they behave, and not at all to raccoons and raccoonlike behaviour. I was having the same reaction as the cats in the video - “What are you doing? You are not following the social conventions. Stop. Staaahp.”
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Toxoplasmosis (a parasite carried by cats) takes over the hosts brain and makes them think they like cat company. Makes mice unafraid, makes people feed them. Just a small scratch and you’re a punk for life.
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we had a cat named zen. zen was what you could call “seemingly special” to the point he literally appeared catatonic pun not intended,
we thought he might have an extra chromosome. we could literally pick him up dress him sit him up , put glasses on him place a book in his paws and he would not flinch for minutes long minutes not short minutes the only way you could tell he wasn’t catatonic was the purring . we didn’t give it much hope he would exhibit any of a typical cats prowess till he discovered hunting man that fat cat could move. next thing we realized he was spending his time sitting in bushes every single night with racoons , our guess was they just couldn’t imagine he was a threat. we kind of worried and tried to keep in for a while but gave up. they never hurt him.
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Raccoons were brought from North America (“racoon” cones from an Algonquian word) to Europe and Japan by asshat humans, causing the destruction of agriculture and native wildlife, blahblah, lather rinse repeat.
With the constant recurrence of this kind of dumb catastrophe, there should def be a Conservationists’ Mental Health Fund.
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The last cat was cool with all the touching. Until he went for the butt.
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In my mental picture of animal-meme society, it makes complete sense for raccoons and cats to hang out together, though cats would find it embarrassing that raccoons try so hard.
You wouldn’t find raocoöns hanging out with snakes though.
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Um, raccoons sometimes eat cats, if they can’t find easier food.
Meeting at the same bowl probably ends up being more awkward than cute.
“No, I insist.”
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