PYF Raccoon: it's cheap and features a raccoon.

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cash crab posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGq0I4xEY <--- I like the part where he eats fruit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaoVPDT1EE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjRhMe0Wlo

My friend once told me a story from one of her professors who does wildlife rehabilitation. He and his wife rehabilitated an orphaned raccoon. When he was grown up, they let him go, but he still came back to visit pretty frequently. The professor and his wife had a bucket outside to catch rainwater to water the plants everyday. Their raccoon would often wash its hands in that bucket when it came to visit.

One day, they decided to touch up some paint around their windows, then forgot to put the lid back on the gallon bucket. That night they heard an unholy scream. The raccoon had gone to wash its hands as usual and was dismayed to find that his bucket no longer contained water. He took off back to a stream on their property to wash the paint off.

cash crab posted:

Here is Oreo, the raccoon he was modelled from.

This is cool.

Oooo. Also, when I lived in Lawrence, KS, around once a year, we'd be driving and pass a tree filled with a bunch of raccoons. I can't find a picture though. My vet clinic actually had a picture of another raccoon tree though. I'm talking, like, at least 10 raccoons all sitting in a tree conversing.

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# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 20:48

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:47

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Mans posted:

are they like rats in that they lurk around urban areas and feed off garbage?

Yes

Mans posted:

are they domestic animals?

Mans posted:

are they always as big and fat as in those videos?

Only the ones kept as pets are that obese.

Mans posted:

are they aggressive?

They can definitely be a threat to any animal their size or smaller, like chickens, cats, bunnies and they can rabbit hutches with their little hands. But usually just run from humans. They are smart, though, so many of them figure out that not all humans want to kill them. I had a couple that were my buddies a few years back. Some rear end in a top hat shot the super polite one with, what I think was, an airsoft version of buckshot in the spine. It didn't do any bone damage, but animal skin is thin and bbs usually break the skin and can fester when someone shoots an animal with a bb gun. This applies to cats and dogs as well.

If I had been braver, I would have tried to get a better look at the wound and maybe clean it out. But they are wild animals and while this one was super sweet compared to its pushy friend, I don't really wanna push my luck and try to touch it. Especially poking at a wound. Raccoons are fast and I don't want to get bitten.

Also, there was the gang of raccoons killing pets and attacking any human that tried to interfere in Olympia,Washington in 2006:
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/wolves/raccoons091906.htm

Mans posted:

they seem like a mixture between the scavenging habits of rats and the personality of a sloth.

They are actually super smart. Some of the raccoons that hang out in my yard were actually eating all of the snails one night. I thought it was neat and the "munchmunchmunch" noise was funny. I seldom see snails anymore.

# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 21:37

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cash crab posted:

The second this video started I reflexively muttered, "Let them eat," and I was not disappointed.

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7VYfDcP-o

I just like the title of this video:

Raccoon will wash everything you love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkPFdyyMMk

I can't understand why the humans are so surprised that the raccoon is kind of destructive, though.

Also, the video that is often linked where the dude gets home and his raccoon has remodeled the kitchen cabinets, those people actually got animal control called on them for neglect and abuse after those videos because they are super lovely people and treated their raccoon poorly. So it always kind of annoys me to see it in threads like this. Sure, the raccoon is cute and funny, but those people are terrible.

Looks like Willie continued being famous. Look how wrong I am.

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# ¿ Aug 22, 2015 21:41

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Zanael posted:

Damnit it just clicked for me.
In french they're called "Ratons laveurs", "laveur" = "washer"

I think someone in another thread, that turned into a raccoon derail because raccoons are hilarious, mentioned that they were called washer bears and the country didn't even actually have any native species of bears. I came to the conclusion that English is the only language that doesn't call them washer bears. I'm sure that's untrue, but washer bear is just such a great name for them.

I always get a kick out of how, when I go outside while raccoons who aren't my bros are eating leftover food off the trey I have outside for the strays, they pull all the food they can reach towards them with both paws, grab the biggest handful they can, then run off while stuffing food into their faces.

Man, I hope those sentences parse for people reading this. I haven't gotten enough sleep.

# ¿ Aug 23, 2015 20:38

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Fauxtool posted:

like most small animals, they are best in a stew so the taste is not really important. They taste like wild rabbit and seem to be a little more parasite free than squirrels somehow.

Crockpot over a long time is the way to go.

Their feces actually contains really mean roundworms that do horrible things to dogs and humans. I think there was even an episode of house about a Baylisascaris procyonis infection. Which isn't a concern for you if washed your hands after handling it then cooked it.

Study on the prevalence of the parasite in California, where I just learned that raccoons poo poo in communal areas called "latrines":
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/12/03-0039_article

Also, finally looked up what the scientific name for raccoons means. "The raccoon's scientific name, Procyon lotor, is neo-Latin, meaning "before-dog washer", with lotor Latin for "washer" and Procyon Latinized Greek from προ-, "before" and κύων, "dog"."

Here is a raccoon helping a dog with its oral hygiene. That sounds either dirty or horrifying, but it this video is neither.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWZPA5kGGd8

And a litter of kits are rescued and rehabilitated after their mom died in someones attic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z95nXbfv-4
They destroy an expensive pair of boots while using the guy who rescued them as a jungle gym. They are being rehabilitated by someone else who knows what she's doing though.

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# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 12:51

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhzp_7eW7r4&list=RDmhzp_7eW7r4#t=5

cash crab posted:

Your family reunions are weird.

# ¿ Aug 25, 2015 21:37

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Macasaurus posted:

"A little privacy please?"

# ¿ Sep 1, 2015 07:10

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Dabir posted:

Those washbears need a tiny tuba player to follow them around.

Damnit. If I had time I would photoshop that for you. Google image search only had this.

# ¿ Sep 2, 2015 20:32

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anotherblownsave posted:

Someone told me today the reason washbears wash their food is because they don't have saliva. Can someone confirm/deny?

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/raccoons-wash-food1.htm

quote:

Initially, scientists conjectured that raccoons lacked saliva glands and needed to add moisture, making it easier for them to eat [source: Zeveloff]. Instead, study results indicate that the behavior enhances the tactile experience involved with eating.

In a study examining the slowly adapting nerves in the forepaws of 136 raccoons, researchers found that wetting the skin increases the nerve responsiveness [source: Rasmusson and Turnbull]. Think about what happens when you look through a pair of sunglasses and then quickly take them off. When you remove them, your optical nerve responsiveness will likely increase because more light is flooding into your retinas to illuminate what you're looking at. Likewise, when raccoons perform their dunking ritual, the water on their paws could excite the nerves in their forepaws. That, in turn, gives them a more vivid tactile experience and provides precise information about what they're about to eat. This is a beneficial trait since the raccoon's vision isn't its keenest sense.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/raccoon-facts-zmaz87jfzgoe.aspx

quote:

For many years biologists assumed that raccoons wash their food in the true sense-tidy it up before tossing it down. But during the early twentieth century, that idea was pushed aside in favor of the theory that raccoons wet their food because their salivary glands don't produce enough saliva to meet their digestive needs. By the early 1960s, though, researchers had decided that raccoons do produce sufficient saliva, and another explanation was called for. The third theory postulated that, since the coon so enjoys handling its food before eating it, it wets both its paws and the item being pawed in order to heighten the sense of touch.

I figured that since I've seen them eat plenty of stuff without washing it first, that was a myth. But it looks like it was actually a scientific theory that's since been dis-proven.

The ones that visit my backyard for cat food or their annual escargot hunt _{(munchmunchmunchmunchmunch)} only wash their hands after eating.

I can't find any videos that do the sound of them munching on snails justice. But I found a very acrobatic raccoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXUENR-0XxE

Edit: I just noticed on rewatching the full video of the raccoon that grabs the cat food and runs away on two legs is a mama raccoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww5VKDhtOFA

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# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 21:11

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Looks like a Russian zoo uses washing clothes for their raccoon enrichment. I think they are hiding treats in the folds of the clothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3uVDkgycik

Don't invite raccoons over for christmas. They will open all the presents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b05H75ojd0s
Or maybe the yotaphone is made of fish and that's why the raccoons broke into the boxes.

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# ¿ Sep 8, 2015 21:36

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And a lot of chittering. We had some work done under our house several years ago and the plumber forgot to put the chunk of wood back over the crawl space. Some raccoons promptly moved in and had babies.

Since I was afraid that if we put the wood back up and strand a raccoon or two in there too die a long, painful death, there were a couple more litters born under there before we were sure they were gone. Lots of raccoon domestic disputes going on, driving my dog insane. He'd stand over the area of the floor he heard their angry chittering coming from, look at us beseechingly, and whine.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 16:15

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJYV4mGjiyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlFu_s6-7cs

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 16:16

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Aesop Poprock posted:

he's real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9Yr1TqnW8

I like to think that the raccoon actually brought the Wendy's food with him into the guy's office to eat it.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2015 23:59

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a friend just posted this on facebook:

So I suggested that she could have him help her do dishes and linked this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7VYfDcP-o

Made this, 'cause he's so happeh!

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# ¿ Oct 7, 2015 18:55

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goose fleet posted:

Thank you for this. I don't know if I will use it as a photoshop base or as a drawing reference, but will post the results here.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2015 19:50

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Ambitious Spider posted:

Washes with a rag on a stick bear

lol

# ¿ Oct 11, 2015 16:52

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goose fleet posted:

She's got a case of the vapers

# ¿ Oct 18, 2015 19:07

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cash crab posted:

^^^ this is good

Awww. It's created a trash fort. Or trash castle. A trashle.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2015 13:38

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MsJoelBoxer posted:

Took this picture of a wash-bear at ARTIS in 2006. I'd never seen one in a zoo before.

Did it have its own habitat or had it just invaded someone else's because there was awesome food there? Kind of like how every zoo I've been to has a very healthy population of squirrels.

Finally found this picture again:

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# ¿ Nov 8, 2015 00:18

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twistedmentat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHwmCwoqdKA
Aaah they're eating PB&J!

I've fed one of my raccoon bros* pb&j. Took it a few seconds to figure out how to eat it, then lots of chewing.

*By bros, I mean it was not a pet. We are not related.

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# ¿ Dec 22, 2015 17:15

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twistedmentat posted:

I just assumed you mean you two fist bump regularly.

It is pretty amusing to wtach animals eat human food because most animals jaws can only go up and down, not side to side so it looks funny.

Yeah. That's what I was going for. But just thought I'd clarify.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2015 00:34

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goose fleet posted:

What do raccoons smell like

I didn't notice a smell when i'd go out to hang with my raccoon bros. I also didn't stick my face right up to them though because my face parts work just fine where they are.

But from the 2 or 3 feet away from my nose they were, i'd say they aren't stanky like you'd expect, considering where they hold their social gatherings.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 02:33

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cash crab posted:

Deer

(because of hugging)

He's not hugging that deer. He's trying to pull it into the pond for a bath. It must be washed!

# ¿ Jan 22, 2016 02:53

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Jenova posted:

I see that cash crab finally made it over to the UK and to my favourite reptile shop. Why the name change, you on undercover business or something?

Bandit's owner needs to get some snails, just because the faces and chewing noises are adorable. My raccoon bros actually preferred finding wild escargot to the cat food.

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 21:11

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Mouse Dresser posted:

He's happy because he gets to spend the day at the luxury spa. He just had a massage, and will be getting a pedicure after the aromatherapy bath, but before the glycolic peel. The mud mask really does a wonder on his whiskers.

Here he is blowing on his nails to dry them, after getting that perfect shady of glossy black:

Enjoying the hot tub to relax his aching washing muscles:

Waiting for his turn for a deep tissue shiatsu massage:

Of course you have wonderful pictures of raccoons at the spa. By your user name, I'm going to guess you work in the vermin fashion industry.

# ¿ Feb 2, 2016 02:37

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Mouse Dresser posted:

I used to work costumes for Disney

Is that PUMBA getting the massage in the spa pictures?! That's tabloid material right there.

Edit. Nvm. Just a regular boar, not a warthog.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2016 19:16

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Aesop Poprock posted:

To this day I can't stand the weird droopy character styles this show used and find them deeply unpleasant

Agreed.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2016 14:32

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The Zombie Guy posted:

Because wash bears thrive on garbage.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2016 20:12

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twistedmentat posted:

Cash Crab outed as a scrap booker

More shocking than her honeymoon pictures from earlier in the thread!

# ¿ Apr 24, 2016 16:28

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# ¿ May 1, 2016 18:24

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cash crab posted:

goosefleet and I are happy to help you name anything at any time. It is part of the service package we provide, free of cost

"Oh god Idon'twantabath!"

# ¿ May 8, 2016 20:43

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Boat posted:

There was a similar pair hanging out on the UF campus while I was there, an orange tabby and a smallish raccoon buddying around together. I like to think that the raccoon used its hands to get to food the cat couldn't while the cat used its superior hunting skills to catch food the raccoon couldn't.

The perfect duo!

Maybe they were litter mates! Mom-cats will kidnap babies of other species to be moms to after they have a litter of kittens. Maybe a raccoon baby was orphaned and that cats mom took over parenting duties.

Fake edit: found a video of a cat letting a raccoon kit nurse. That poor cat.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8H9VhbET260

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WIksXfvv-xU

There were several videos about raccoon moms adopting kittens for me to go through though.

# ¿ May 10, 2016 03:20

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Guy Mann posted:

The only marsupials in North America. and drat good ones, at that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkofwx2liHM

This possum never read the warnings about never letting your kids play with plastic bags.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4_yGhzpp0

I kind of really dislike the narrator.

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# ¿ May 11, 2016 03:09

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Guy Mann posted:

"Say whaaa?!"

He's lost one of his teeth.

# ¿ May 11, 2016 04:47

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Whatev posted:

Lost it at "Little Johnny Skip-a-bath".

# ¿ May 15, 2016 18:47

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twistedmentat posted:

I was trying to figure out a good name for a superpowered racoon that had electricity powers, but they

all sound incredibly racist.

Lightning bandit?

Rac-conductor? Raccoonductor?

# ¿ May 18, 2016 19:05

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Bina posted:

Flash Gorton (Fish sticks)

Sketti Shock

Surge (Soda) or Sargent Surge

Zap Bran-a-grain

Electric Bologna (Baloney)

Current Jelly

These are all excellent trash panda names.

# ¿ May 19, 2016 03:37

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twistedmentat posted:

See if had Electrocoon, Voltcoon...yea, Goon suggestions much better.

Electraccoon.

Edit: sorry for the double post.

# ¿ May 19, 2016 03:37

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goose fleet posted:

Took me a moment to figure out that was a squeaky toy.

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 11:47

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goose fleet posted:

I saw a video of a raccoon kit being bottle fed earlier today and I couldn't tell it was a raccoon until I read the description because the fur hadn't grown in enough to see its mask. But it was making bread on its rescuers hand while it nursed. Anyway, I can't find that video now, so here are some other kits being bottle fed.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5up0-ZBVb08

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dotsq3ukcY0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFk8rvWw1w

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