[DCBryan1]

That's a rather poor analogy... I love raccoons! They're much, MUCH nicer and smarter than most people.

Cute as can be unless you want a 25% chance of getting the horrible disease from RACCOON ROUNDWORM.

If you are lucky, Raccoon roundworm will just straight out kill you. If you are unlucky, it will blind you and/or turn you into a vegetable. It is a possible biological weapon since the only thing that can kill the eggs is heat >190 degrees F.

[Gargantua]

That's why the first thing you do is squirt an eye-dropper full of goopy yellow de-worming sauce down the little snarper's gullet. The baby 'coon's first poop after that is quite a revelation for the uninitiated... LMAO!!!

Handled hundreds and raised several dozen over the years (in my sixties now), and never had so much as a scratch (at least that wasn't given in fun!. Theories are fine, as are media-fed fears, but they don't replace facts.