A raccoon that was raised by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different than having a cat or dog, imho.

Super smart, excellent climbers and ridiculously dexterous, raccoons would be able to open most of your closets, drawers and cupboards to rifle the contents. You would have to baby-lock EVERYTHING all of the time, and never slip up. I wouldn't want a bored raccoon trapped in my home, looking for entertainment. Also, they climb up on to things and poop down them, so shelves in your house would pretty much have to be eliminated. So would anything they could climb on. Raccoons do not use litter boxes or puppy pads.

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My favorite life form. Picea Pungens Glauca (the Colorado Blue Spruce) grow to 70 feet or more. They really are blue.

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Trees are Alive as any Critter. Man O Live, I Love EverGreens

Wish I could Bend My Mind as in Tales of Power

Tree, Take Me Away

Yap

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Wild Horses.
Fine animals. Another of God's best.
Mewowhinnney.

Now I get some flashbacks.
As a kid I spent some summers at a farm.
They had an old mare (märr in swedish) I think she was about 20 years old.
And her name was Mary.
What else:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnShth-cQy4

[quote]Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail.
The simple fact is that their lifespans are too short to be affected by radiation,. They die naturally before they get tumours,.

Not only cats.
Horses as well:)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/[/q

I cannot let you slide through my hands.
\;p
Wild Horses.
Fine animals. Another of God's best.

Mewowhinnney.

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"With cats." kittyman

Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail.
The simple fact is that their lifespans are too short to be affected by radiation,. They die naturally before they get tumours,.

Not only cats.
Horses as well:)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/23/wildlife-returns-to-radioactive-wasteland-of-chernobyl/

This is weird.
30 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster area around the meltdown in northern Ukraine it has now become one of Europe's most interesting wildernesses.
Wildlife thrives in the forbidden zone

Wierd?? Not at all. Cats are the most resiliant and adaptabke animals on the planet. They are adaptable, and have show the ability to thriev when most mammals fail.

The simple fact is that their lifespans are too short to be affected by radiation,. They die naturally before they get tumours,.

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"Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"With cats." kittyman

This is weird.
30 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster area around the meltdown in northern Ukraine it has now become one of Europe's most interesting wildernesses.
Wildlife thrives in the forbidden zone

Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".

Wild indoor raccoons, or a tame, pet raccoon? A raccoon that was raised
by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different
than having a cat or dog, imho.

So as the Russians who were breeding foxes proved, one has to breed for tameness, otherwise they can be anything but tame...

That is the most likely way that Dogs and Cats were domesticated around 10,000 years back.

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Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".

Wild indoor raccoons, or a tame, pet raccoon? A raccoon that was raised
by humans and that was very tame - domesticated - wouldn't be much different
than having a cat or dog, imho.

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~Sue~

How to catch an escargot?

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'Hol(ie) Narcolepsy'.......!

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

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Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".

I agree, indoor raccoons are not a good idea.
Eric is a very smart man, that is why he our leader.

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what might have happened if the Raccoon had been a native of Egypt of China(?)

I am willing to bet that if that happened, we would have
better garbage cans than the Raccoon magnets we now have!

:):)

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When I see stories like the one about Cody I can't help thinking about man's first attempts at changing wild dogs and cats into the "cuddly pets" we have today, and what might have happened if the Raccoon had been a native of Egypt of China(?) where the cat and dog were first habituated by humans....

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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".

Well then you will have to just work on him about this eh?

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Cody is a doll, but Eric is really adamant about not having "indoor raccoons".

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More than you bargained for? I'll bet :)

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