Haha - We just had a couple of “baby” raccoons show up last week. One is 1.3 lbs., the other 1.2 lbs. After a couple days of them kinda hiding out in a “nook” on our back porch, but getting weaker with time, we figured “mom” must be dead. (Normally they stay with the mother for a year.) Adults are a big problem for us, as they’ll definitely kill chickens, but these two cubs are just so cute...
I don’t have the heart to kill them, or let them starve, so, for now we are doing the “Rascal” bit, and after some difficulty getting them to eat, it looks like they will survive. My daughter just got out of school so she gets the job of finding them a home / rescue shelter. Once they get over their fear of humans (the smaller one never really seemed to have any) they are just totally endearing, tho’ we know they lose that as they get older. Maybe Atlanta would take them - heh!
An interesting question is: How did raccoons never get domesticated, like (at least) cats?
“How did raccoons never get domesticated, like (at least) cats?”
Cats domesticated themselves.
Far better just to kill them.
As you said they ae pests.
There’s a minor league baseball team called the Rocket City Trash Pandas (Raccoons).