A European could not understand why I would shoot a raccoon, it was so soft and cute it must be harmless. I showed him the skull and asked if the teeth looked soft and cute.
As a child I had two baby raccoons as pets (stepfather was a trapper). They were relatively harmless ... until they weren’t. There are many people who have somewhat domesticated pwt raccoons but there is always a danger with wild animals. ALWAYS.
Several years ago, I mentioned on Facebook that our family had killed several armadillos on our land.
Some idiot took exception to that and carried on about how they were harmless and insinuated that we were right wingnuts with guns that killed everything in sight for fun.
He had no idea how invasive they are and how much damage their burrowing does to our land.