foxytaur (imported) wrote: Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:45 pm
A breed Racoon would be awesome.They have an awesome metabolism and can eat anything.steak,pies,cookies,doritos etc...
Easy to monitor their bellies as they're naturally adaptable to a very high fatty caloric intake diet.
I'd call my pet raccoon "bert" from the 80's cartoon show "the raccoon's"
I lived on close terms with raccoons for a considerable time. They are fascinating animals but I have no desire to have one as a pet. When I was another sex and married, I lived for 16 years on a houseboat on Lake Union in the center of downtown Seattle. The houseboats on our dock were old style, built on log floats close to a hundred years old. We had a family of raccoons living on the logs directly under the floorboards of our living room. They could be very noisy. Raccoon sex is even louder than cat sex. As every boat on the dock had at least one cat, and all had windows or doors or cat doors, the raccoons, (and there were several other boats occupied by raccoons) felt free to wonder in and help themselves. On several occasions I tripped over one getting up in the night to pee. One year a mama raccoon and three babies sort of decided that we were the raccoon equivalent of TV, At night we would look up and see the four of then sitting at the sliding glass door to the back deck watching us. As there was cat food on the deck, they weren't begging. Just watching. The cats, raccoons and rats all seemed to get along fine for at least a dozen years, but one year we had a vicious one that killed a couple of pet cats on the dock. That one had to be trapped and dealt with. Most years we had Canadian geese establish nests in the planters on our decks. The raccoons would not tangle with a full grown goose, but if both parents left the nest at the same time the raccoons would zip in and eat the eggs or kill the goslings I saw some violent clashes between the geese returning to the nest and the raccoons eating there.
Interesting but definitely wild animals.
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