Has anyone ever adopted a raccoon?

blackredyellow

Hammerdonkey wrote:

I just noticed the thread starter is 16 years old. I'm starting to understand now.

Look, I wish I could be 16 again too. Life's just beginning for you. You haven't experienced enough to become jaded by society yet. You probably haven't suffered through events in your life that would enable you to beat an animal to death under any circumstance. There's nothing wrong with that. It all comes in time.

Pay attention here...when you seek advice from anyone throughout your life, you need to get it from people who have gone through whatever you're asking about, and LISTEN. Don't ask a blind person how to drive a car. Don't get financial advice from someone who sells crack under a bridge in Manhattan. Don't eat food prepared by a person who likes to touch their asshole and then smell their fingers. And don't think that the little cute raccoon that makes your insides warm with its cuteness gives one shit about you or any other human. And it won't. You're not gonna ever come home one day and say "Hey Bandit!! I'm home" and then watch as he comes running into your outstretched arms.

It's a novelty thing right now. I bet you all gather around the window when it comes up and you all talk about how precious it is. You've probably already picked a name out for it.

Well, cut that shit out. Shoot that son of a bitch right now. That animal hates you and if it ever felt threatened in the slightest bit over any move you made or tone you spoke in, it would rip your face completely off and probably take a nice crap on it. Don't try to be the world's raccoon Messiah. Go be a teenager and learn how to unclasp bras and find out where the hole is. It'll be a lot safer.

True Story.

Couldn't agree more... If you put yourself between a raccoon, and an open bag full of trash, it would go through you if it had to to get to it.

blondieblue227

my vote goes to

call a wildlife rehabber.


my friend is one and what they do is neat. they help hurt (or whatever) animals so they can be released back out into the wild.
anybody can be a volunteer i think.

pjtradeking

Hammerdonkey wrote:

Don't get financial advice from someone who sells crack under a bridge in Manhattan.

What if said crack dealer USE to work on Wall Street?

Hammerdonkey

pjtradeking wrote:

Hammerdonkey wrote:

Don't get financial advice from someone who sells crack under a bridge in Manhattan.

What if said crack dealer USE to work on Wall Street?

That would be a judgement call. Keep us posted.

PJFAN_seattle

pjtradeking wrote:

Hammerdonkey wrote:

Don't get financial advice from someone who sells crack under a bridge in Manhattan.

What if said crack dealer USE to work on Wall Street?

hehehehehehe

tybird

TravisTheSky wrote:

Don't risk it. Raccoons are illegal pets in most states. If the authorities found out you were keeping him, they would probably seize him. A domestic raccoon would have no interest living in the wild again, so he would be euthanised.

When I was a child, my neighbours kept a young raccoon. I don't know what happened to it when it grew up. Some years later, a family had their beloved pet raccoon seized and killed by Animal Control because they automatically presumed that all raccoons had rabies. (This one did not.) The family was tormented by the act, and heartbroken afterward.

Agreed.....if it ever bites anyone, and they report it to the state....the poor little dude or dudette is put down

LloydXmas

PJFAN_seattle wrote:

There is this really young raccoon that comes to our deck sometimes, we're thinking of adopting him? He's very chilled out and has never been violent, he seems to be starving to death.
Thoughts/comments?

Still have the raccoon?

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my ex step dad used to have one as a pet pre sted dad dom