Even panda and polar bears are cute...until you give it a big hug. pound for pound i think a racoon is the mike tyson of the woods. seen one kick three of my dogs arses like a ninga. and great pics by the way.
I couldn't agree more! they are cute when they are small, but are tough as nails when they grow up. I used to trap them and had my share of experiences. I seen one shot in the neck with a .22 one night and it still put up a fight with a dog on each end. Most dogs learn a hard lesson quick. Just hope your dog doesn't get into it one on one with a racoon in the water. A raccoon will actually attempt to drown the dog by clamping on it's head.
When I was in school one of my teachers went on vacation and came home to find that a coon had chewed through her storm door and back door. Got into the cabinets and chewed through 6 cabinets and was sitting in the middle of the kitchen floor defending it's new home when they walked in.
Had a friend who was a power company lineman and they found a mother coon fried up near a transformer and a baby coon was wondering all over the ground. He brought it home and fed it and it became very tame and went in and out of the house like a dog. Fast forward 6 months and the thing was huge and he had to keep it in the cellar. One morning his wife went downstairs and saw the coon had come out of the cellar and somehow opened the door and went through all the cupboards. There was packaged food all over the floor and boxes and bags stored in the pantry were all scattered. The wife told him it was her or the coon and the lineman took the male coon which was now around 6 months old and put it into the back seat of the car for a trip to his camp where he was going to let it go into the wild. On route the coon climbed on to the back rest of the drivers seat right around the guy's shoulders. He swatted at it to knock it back to the back seat and it snarled and grabbed him on the neck. He struggled to control the car and finally got it stopped and was in a fight for his life with the coon. Somehow he got the thing off his neck and opened the door and it scampered out into the woods.
