Raccoons as pets ??

[Wailua Boy]

I didn't know you guys had raccoons in Hawaii....
They do that because they don't have any salivary glands......they wash all their food before they eat it so it doesn't taste dry and it makes it easier for them to swallow No wonder they get ornery

Oh yeah no raccoons in Hawaii, happened when I was living briefly in Nor Cal.

 

[Frank Castle]

Still hard to really know what is actually true not a whole lot of study has gone into Raccoons and information is contradicting itself all the time so hard to know what to believe lol

all I know for sure 100%, is they may look cute, but just like any wild animal, they can get angry and/or feel threatened and whoop some ass when they need to. Be careful.

 

[Becky&herRaccoon]

all I know for sure 100%, is they may look cute, but just like any wild animal, they can get angry and/or feel threatened and whoop some ass when they need to. Be careful.

I do agree with this but I'm hoping because she is domesticated (bottle fed from the moment she was born) that she will be placid

 

[krichardson]

all I know for sure 100%, is they may look cute, but just like any wild animal, they can get angry and/or feel threatened and whoop some ass when they need to. Be careful.

Yep,cute but don't piss one off.Frank,what is up with them defecating in water?

 

[Frank Castle]

Yep,cute but don't piss one off.Frank,what is up with them defecating in water?

a lot of animals do it to keep their butts clean lol sometimes they just can't find any toilet paper

Snakes and other reptiles do it also

I do agree with this but I'm hoping because she is domesticated (bottle fed from the moment she was born) that she will be placid

ya, she sees you as "momma"

 

[krichardson]

a lot of animals do it to keep their butts clean lol sometimes they just can't find any toilet paper

I wish I would catch one of the yard snakes pooping in my koi pond.I'll turn him into reptilian Veinna sausages.
I have observed the racoons at work relieving themselves in the catfood bowls and I wondered why they did that.I thought it might have been a tactic to keep the cats from coming back.

 

[Frank Castle]

I wish I would catch one of the yard snakes pooping in my koi pond.I'll turn him into reptilian Veinna sausages.
I have observed the racoons at work relieving themselves in the catfood bowls and I wondered why they did that.I thought it might have been a tactic to keep the cats from coming back.

don't hurt da snakez....they are harmless, either Garter or Brown and are probably helping your pond plants grow by fertilizing them

 

[krichardson]

don't hurt da snakez....they are harmless, either Garter or Brown and are probably helping your pond plants grow by fertilizing them

No Garters, they are Dekays-Northern Browns and I don't have any plants this year so all they'd probably be doing is contribute to algae growth lol.

 

[Frank Castle]

No Garters, they are Dekays-Northern Browns and I don't have any plants this year so all they'd probably be doing is contribute to algae growth lol.

oh, well then they keep the bug populations down and eat baby mice/rats

 

[krichardson]

oh, well then they keep the bug populations down and eat baby mice/rats

....and they eat the slugs that mess up my plants.