I know what you mean, but...speaking for myself, I cannot help but admire something in Raccoons.
I don’t know what it is...their bold thievery, their ability to survive (except when crossing roads) but something about them appeals to me.
They just can’t cross roadways...like squirrels.
When God created squirrels, I have long thought that he used the angels to help him out, because he was so busy.
He asked angels to do things like design the color palette for rainbows...put the horn on the rhino, the stripes on a tiger, and the trunk on an elephant.
The angels helped him out with these tasks, and did a stellar job, except for one. There was one good-hearted angel, who was generally incompetent. The other angels liked him, and implored God to allow him to take on a project, so God allowed him to design the road crossing algorithm for squirrels.
Well, that is the cross that squirrels must bear on their short time on earth...crossing roads for them is as predictable as flipping a coin.
Heads, you make it. Tails, you get squished by an oxcart or a car, and have the opportunity to discuss the faults in the program with that angel.
That same road-crossing algorithm was probably used to save time in armadillos, possums, and...raccoons!
No such thing as a rhinoceros. It’s a chubby Unicorn!
A. To show the possum it could be done.