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goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!
Raccoons (Procyon Lotor) are our favorite backyard friends and live in garbage cans and eat literally everything. They also look adorable and do hilarious things sometimes.

PYF Raccoon Images



PYF Raccoon GIFs



PYF Raccoon Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwtdIXWGry4 (literally a raccoon riding a bicycle wow)

It's OK to raccoon

And now for some words from our official(?) sponsors

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I walked outside side for my usually evening conversation with deer friends. After our greetings they brought my attention to a new friend standing in the background. As I looked, out of the darkness stepped Bandito, with Raccoon Medicine. He was sitting under the bird feeder picking up bird seed that had fallen to the ground.

As I watch in amazement at how ambidextrous he was, I greeted him, he looked at me from behind his mask, and taught me this lesson in Raccoon Medicine.

“Set aside any doubts you have and know that the resources you need will be there for you. Adopt a relaxed attitude; open yourself up to the joy, curiosity and open-ended exploration of life.”

Be aware of any signs, omens one may be getting from those close, or from the other side. My deer friends agreed. He went on to say, Raccoon Medicine brings the gifts of: Curiosity, Exploration, Night Vision, Eating Raw, the magic of Keeping Secrets, using Masks, and Connecting to Trees.”

The magic of the Raccoon Medicine is in its mask, my tiny hands perform the task.
No stone unturned, looking for that juicy worm. Something to eat, would be really sweet.
Your transformation is here, thanks to the deer. Now is the time to let go of your fear.

When Raccoon Medicine crosses ones path it is a good sign. He is a good protector. Raccoon is intelligent, cunning, clean, and very helpful. When one doesn’t know how to do something, make prayers, and a wish to Raccoon. Leave him some food, he will show how to resolve the problem !!!

Raccoon Medicine can also be used as doctor power, hunting power, and protection power. Should one ever get lost in the woods in Nature, just ask Raccoon to help. He likes helping humanity.

When Raccoon Medicine makes its presence known in your life, this little bandit may be saying, look around, see your strength at this time. It may be time to share your energy with some less fortunate. At the same time, Raccoon asks you to honor yourself, provide for your own needs, sow that you have enough power to give energy generously when it’s needed.

Raccoon Medicine people have the uncanny ability to assist others without allowing them to become dependents. Raccoon selflessly tends to the needs of the tribe, before taking anything for itself. Raccoon teaches us the universal law of giving back to the source of our strength, guidance, and protection. We are reminded, benevolence and generosity always come full circle. What goes around, comes around.

This creature-teacher, teaches us to find what we are looking for, and take only what we need… His association to thievery or stealth is quite common because of this.

His digging for food is the method we can apply to digging for knowledge. The mask he wears teaches, by utilizing the power of masks, or the power of shape-shifting, we can succeed.

Shape-shifting teaches one to become what you want to know more about, you can discover the secrets hidden behind others and their ways. This leads to exciting adventures and explorations of the dimensional shifts and altered states of consciousness.

Raccoon is a problem solver from way back. He has an innate curiosity, about how things work, and will encourage one to discover new ideas, and methods of achieving our goals. Intelligence is one of his strong points; combined with adaptability, and a playful nature he becomes an interesting and powerful teacher.

Raccoon Medicine can show how to live in the Now, taking full advantage of the spirit worlds. His sense of family and hunting will serve well in providing for our own needs. Raccoon is a healer and uses the qualities of water to increase sensitivity, cleanse, purify, and soothing.

goose willis has a new favorite as of 21:04 on Mar 19, 2016

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ro5s
Dec 27, 2012

A happy little mouse!

http://imgur.com/gallery/ypiPU2H

Raccoon go home you're drunk.

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


OMG YAAAAAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13cS7oQwCHc

I Am Crake
Mar 31, 2010

There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.
I knew my :10bux: would pay off someday.

Raccoon playing the harp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKP7UJvTNts

Raccoon washes cotton candy

Anarchist Mae
Nov 5, 2009

by Reene
Lipstick Apathy


By the way, whatever you do, definitely do not Google Image Search "naked raccoon" unless you want to be horrified.

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGq0I4xEY <--- I like the part where he eats fruit



goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!
ROLLIN' ROLLIN' ROLLIN'

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!

Sponge Baathist
Jan 30, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
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goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!

skrapp mettle
Mar 17, 2007





cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology



I would like my username to be changed to one of these, preferably Uncle Destiny or Peach Pit

RCarr
Dec 24, 2007

Rocky was always my favorite.

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!

RCarr posted:

Rocky was always my favorite.

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!

Klaus88
Jan 23, 2011

Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investment


:smug:

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology





Here is Oreo, the raccoon he was modelled from.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

cash crab posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwGq0I4xEY <--- I like the part where he eats fruit





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaoVPDT1EE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjRhMe0Wlo






My friend once told me a story from one of her professors who does wildlife rehabilitation. He and his wife rehabilitated an orphaned raccoon. When he was grown up, they let him go, but he still came back to visit pretty frequently. The professor and his wife had a bucket outside to catch rainwater to water the plants everyday. Their raccoon would often wash its hands in that bucket when it came to visit.

One day, they decided to touch up some paint around their windows, then forgot to put the lid back on the gallon bucket. That night they heard an unholy scream. The raccoon had gone to wash its hands as usual and was dismayed to find that his bucket no longer contained water. He took off back to a stream on their property to wash the paint off.

cash crab posted:



Here is Oreo, the raccoon he was modelled from.



This is cool.

Oooo. Also, when I lived in Lawrence, KS, around once a year, we'd be driving and pass a tree filled with a bunch of raccoons. I can't find a picture though. My vet clinic actually had a picture of another raccoon tree though. I'm talking, like, at least 10 raccoons all sitting in a tree conversing.

Bored has a new favorite as of 20:54 on Aug 22, 2015

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology



The second this video started I reflexively muttered, "Let them eat," and I was not disappointed.

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7VYfDcP-o

:kimchi:

cash crab has a new favorite as of 21:00 on Aug 22, 2015

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
i live in a country with no racoons so i really don't know much about them but they seem like the cutest things i've ever saw

are they like rats in that they lurk around urban areas and feed off garbage? are they domestic animals? are they always as big and fat as in those videos? are they aggressive?

they seem like a mixture between the scavenging habits of rats and the personality of a sloth

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!
Even raccoons love doritos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZr5AqGrLcI

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

Mans posted:

are they like rats in that they lurk around urban areas and feed off garbage?

Yes

Mans posted:

are they domestic animals?

No

Mans posted:

are they always as big and fat as in those videos?
Only the ones kept as pets are that obese.

Mans posted:

are they aggressive?
They can definitely be a threat to any animal their size or smaller, like chickens, cats, bunnies and they can rabbit hutches with their little hands. But usually just run from humans. They are smart, though, so many of them figure out that not all humans want to kill them. I had a couple that were my buddies a few years back. Some rear end in a top hat shot the super polite one with, what I think was, an airsoft version of buckshot in the spine. It didn't do any bone damage, but animal skin is thin and bbs usually break the skin and can fester when someone shoots an animal with a bb gun. This applies to cats and dogs as well.

If I had been braver, I would have tried to get a better look at the wound and maybe clean it out. But they are wild animals and while this one was super sweet compared to its pushy friend, I don't really wanna push my luck and try to touch it. Especially poking at a wound. Raccoons are fast and I don't want to get bitten.

Also, there was the gang of raccoons killing pets and attacking any human that tried to interfere in Olympia,Washington in 2006:
http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/wolves/raccoons091906.htm


Mans posted:


they seem like a mixture between the scavenging habits of rats and the personality of a sloth.
They are actually super smart. Some of the raccoons that hang out in my yard were actually eating all of the snails one night. I thought it was neat and the "munchmunchmunch" noise was funny. I seldom see snails anymore.

Bored
Jul 26, 2007

Dude, ix-nay on the oice-vay.

cash crab posted:

The second this video started I reflexively muttered, "Let them eat," and I was not disappointed.

e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT7VYfDcP-o

:kimchi:

I just like the title of this video:

Raccoon will wash everything you love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkPFdyyMMk

I can't understand why the humans are so surprised that the raccoon is kind of destructive, though.

Also, the video that is often linked where the dude gets home and his raccoon has remodeled the kitchen cabinets, those people actually got animal control called on them for neglect and abuse after those videos because they are super lovely people and treated their raccoon poorly. So it always kind of annoys me to see it in threads like this. Sure, the raccoon is cute and funny, but those people are terrible.

Looks like Willie continued being famous. Look how wrong I am.

Bored has a new favorite as of 22:21 on Aug 22, 2015

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!


Tengort
Sep 4, 2009

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

Are red pandas allowed here?

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!
Sure, close enough

7c Nickel
Apr 27, 2008

Mans posted:

i live in a country with no racoons so i really don't know much about them but they seem like the cutest things i've ever saw

are they like rats in that they lurk around urban areas and feed off garbage? are they domestic animals? are they always as big and fat as in those videos? are they aggressive?

they seem like a mixture between the scavenging habits of rats and the personality of a sloth

Raccoons are generalized omnivores and have evolved primate level intelligence in order to extract food from their surroundings. This basically makes them perfect for living in urbanized habitats. They don't have opposable thumbs, but their fingers are long, thin and lack webbing. They're dexterous and smart enough to open latches, doors, jars, etc. They're sociable and smart enough that a lot will come up to people to be hand fed. They're not domesticated, so as pets they can be destructive, hard/impossible to train, and may lash out unexpectedly. They have big fluffy fur coats which used to be a big deal in the fur trade. Their primary sense is touch, which is why they get all handsy with everything. Soaking their hands and the object they're examining in water amplifies that sense.

Moon Potato
May 12, 2003

goose fleet posted:

Sure, close enough
We're headed down a slippery slope to coatimundis and olingos.

Scaly Haylie
Dec 25, 2004

goose fleet posted:

Sure, close enough

Great, thanks!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZA-22fp8I

Lonely Virgil
Oct 9, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkPFdyyMMk

Raccoons are called "washer-bears" in many languages. :3:

Baldbeard
Mar 26, 2011

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




noone posted raccoon_kiss.jpg shame

goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!

cash crab
Apr 5, 2015

all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology


Lonely Virgil posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lkPFdyyMMk

Raccoons are called "washer-bears" in many languages. :3:

Oooh, that made me so happy.

Anyway, in terms of being aggressive, they tend to be very aggressive when they're not in big city centres, and when they are underweight. Rural raccoons are usually a little bit dumber, as well. A very large male that used to live under my deck with his little raccoon wife* used to do things like tug on my pant leg while I was browsing my phone to ask for either attention or food. It got so bad I had to carry out steins of water to splash on him, which made him look mildly confused ("I thought we were friends??") but didn't deter him until after the female gave birth and he had moseyed off. I'm glad he left because we couldn't get our cat fixed while she was in heat and he used to sit next to the bathroom window, and she thought he was a cat so she'd go into heat every two days or so (she also did the same thing whenever she'd find my roommate's jacket).

*: I forgot the word for "mate" but I am keeping this

7c Nickel
Apr 27, 2008
http://i.imgur.com/RGkgHuY.gifv

This image is good for illustrating why Raccoons are both loved and hated.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENq4TMEkfAs

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

cash crab posted:

Oooh, that made me so happy.

Anyway, in terms of being aggressive, they tend to be very aggressive when they're not in big city centres, and when they are underweight. Rural raccoons are usually a little bit dumber, as well. A very large male that used to live under my deck with his little raccoon wife* used to do things like tug on my pant leg while I was browsing my phone to ask for either attention or food. It got so bad I had to carry out steins of water to splash on him, which made him look mildly confused ("I thought we were friends??") but didn't deter him until after the female gave birth and he had moseyed off. I'm glad he left because we couldn't get our cat fixed while she was in heat and he used to sit next to the bathroom window, and she thought he was a cat so she'd go into heat every two days or so (she also did the same thing whenever she'd find my roommate's jacket).

*: I forgot the word for "mate" but I am keeping this

Also, they tend to carry rabies. The proper response to a wild raccoon is a boot to the face if it won't take the hint to go away, especially if you have outdoors pets like chickens.

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goose willis
Jun 14, 2015

Get ready for teh wacky laughz0r!
It's OK to drive raccoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJf0qXeaZWU

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