[rwfromkansas]

"...21-year-old man was on the trail of raccoons that had been preying on chickens on his family's property."

Well, I don't have much sympathy since he was going to shoot a raccoon. Raccoons are great animals. They can be annoying if they get into your stuff, but there are nonlethal ways of dealing with that.

They can even be great pets.  Isn't this guy just adorable?

  
 

[Westlander]

Our hunt club get's together once a month and cap a few dozen of these rodents. We use them for chum, fishing for small coastal shark.

[Ghengis]

Raccoons are great animals. They can be annoying if they get into your stuff, but there are nonlethal ways of dealing with that.

They can even be great pets. Isn't this guy just adorable?

Please don't encourage people to attempt to make pets of racoons. Once they are grown, they become very unpredictable in their behavior. A grown racoon can be one of the meanest animals a person can tangle with.

I have known of a couple of orphaned young racoons made into pets that had to be put down after reaching adulthood. One sunk his front claws and teeth into the hand of its 'master' right down to the bone.

[Simo Hayha]

It would have been great if someone had asked him what racoon tasted like and he had replied "kind of a cross between spotted owl and Kalifurnia condor, but only if you fricassee 'em first."

[mewzilla]

Awwwwww...