One couple recently in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was recently ordered to get rid of her pet raccoon or the city would do it for them. Instead, she and her husband choose to move outside the city where the city bylaws could not touch her. She has moved in with friends who accept the notion of having a raccoon as a pet in their home. They must be really good friends. Because there are not many people would take a friend in with a pet raccoon to go along.
Compare the next picture to the one above. This is obviously an angry raccoon who is probably wild and has been trapped or cornered. He is ready to fight and could do a lot of
There is one other situation that raccoons can be very dangerous. This is when they are sick or diseased with rabies. They will act in a very different way than normal and will attack just about anything. Most animals in the wild will run the other way if they can when they encounter humans. But not those that are diseased, defending the young or if they are cornered.
So what does this have to do with raccoons as pets? Even though they are domesticated, perhaps even from when they are a baby, they still have a wild streak in them. They can turn on their owners as they get older and more temperamental. If they are exposed to other wild raccoons, instinct can kick in and the next thing that happens is that they turn on their owners.
We have seen many pictures online showing the results of mauling by raccoons. We will show one such picture in our next post along with a baby raccoon that is cuddling up to their owner which it thinks is obviously her mother! Imagine! How could such a cute animal turn on it”s owner? More to come, stay tuned.
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