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People tend to fear what they don't understand.
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Baffled is a good look for you.
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Yes, but that doesn't help with training raccoons. We don't have them over here. It's not a natural species, but I am thinking... Would the officials be too upset, if I introduced a twenty couples, as in forty, into our nature... I mean, they would love it here. We barely have any proper winters here, thanks to both the official reasons and the fact, that the Sun is not working properly... It's peaking out now, but watch out for the upcoming mini ice-age...
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I heard about the upcoming mini ice-age from the taxi driver.
Perhaps you could keep the raccoons in your home. The Safe House.
I used to have a ferret that looked like a raccoon. She had that mask.
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Ferrets are evil.
Raccoons are "Born to be wild"... With the soundtrack.
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No UPVotes or Uploving for you...saying wonderful ferrets are evil!!! Pshaw!
Of course...I love raccoons, too.
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Ferrets are neutral.
Can I get an upvote with that statement, darling? Honeypuff?
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I have a forgiving nature.
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I also need love, love.
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People tend to fear what they don't understand.
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Thank you, Doc, but Who are they to say raccoons cannot be trained`as pets? We did that with wolves and now we have sausage dogs.
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I don't know. I think if I ways nice I'd actually have friends.
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Friends? That would be impossible! Nobody has them. Unless you were a freakin' time lord or something.
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Ok.
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Don't be too serious, mate.
I have blood pressure issues to deal with and my heart is going to go any second now. Take it as it goes. ;o) ;o)
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Oh no, what are your issues? Can I help?
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In response to “Oh no, what are your issues? Can I help?”
Nobody can fight the biology, unless it's the one with the biology. You cannot do anything, but I can. I take everything lightly these days, even the harder tasks.
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Let's come back to raccoons. They are not native to Europe, and they should not be released into nature, as they are considered an invasive species. The culprits for their introduction in Europe and elsewhere were mainly fur farms, and later on pet holders!
But keeping them as pets is not really recommended, as they need safe enclosures with much natural space, with trees, playing, exploring and hiding opportunities.
As for training, the clicker and target training might help - with much patience:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clicker_training
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/289
Examples of invasion:
http://www.spiegel.de/internati...-a-847847.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/scie...ert-warns.html
Caring for raccoon cubs
http://sawgrassnaturecenter.org...aint-of-heart/
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People keep tigers as pets, even here in Europe.
They are worse than raccoons, in my mind.
At least they can eat you up.
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Tigers are no pets, and neither are other wild animals, especially when these animals are endangered in their natural environment. And pet or captive animals cannot live according to their natural needs.
They are breeding endangered species in captivity, but it takes much time, patience, special facilities and substancial means to prepare the animals to be released to survive in their natural environment and keep away from humans.
Specialised, internationally recognised zoos and sanctuaries are trying to breed and reintroduce endangered and rare species into their natural habitat since many years ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...reintroduction
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I will have a baboon as a pet, when I grow up.
At least that way, it won't be endangered, unless my fifteen thousand kittens and sausage dogs attack it at the same time.
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Lol - baboons are even worse:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WOR....south.africa/
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No that is illegal, unless you have a licensed recovery station
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I knew a lady in blue hill maine she rescued porcupines and whatever else came her way. Her son came to visit me once and he had quills in his socks ouch. They had a lot of animals a crow who was kinda kooky, it had been hit by a car and they got it back on it's feet but it couldn't go outside cause it didn't know anything. It became similar to a parrot saying many words especially when someone talked on the phone. The healthfood store gave them all wilted produce they fed it to horses. So those horses smelled like sub sandwiches, garlic tomatoes and green pepper.
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Yes they can be domesticated to a certain point. Several animals are like this like Fennek fox or a marten. The issue is you must give them space and room to do wild things.
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Well, I think it wasn't a straight-forward process, when human beings started to turn wolves into dogs, either.
I see absolutely no reason, why a raccoon wouldn't be the dog of the future. They are clearly extremely clever and thus, they should be trainable.
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I am not so sure it will be that easy
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Why not?
Wolves have teeth as well, not to point out the certainty of rabies.
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A few wild animal species can be "domesticated", but it takes a long time, much patience and work, and selective breeding:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/...s-in-the-world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding
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I am a result of selective breeding.
Look, where it got me into.
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Lol -
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https://youtu.be/NOhyduxTOGo?t=404 Is this training or natural behaviour ??
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Gottta love you, Lorraine.
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My mother rescued a baby racoon, many years ago...before me.
Named him black bart.
He got on well with my dads pointer, rex.
He had the run of the wild of our home for four or five years. Then disappeared.
She also rescued a baby skunk. Never sprayed her. He was around for a couple of years.
Then, when she moved north, she fed a host of racoons on a platform outside her bay window.
One, she named precious, came always, for several years. She would bring a litter of babies each year when they were old enough. Mom could have touched her, but refrained.
The last year she came, you could tell she was old.....she disappeared too.
Raccoons are delightful creatures....
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My only real encounter with raccoons was back in 2003, when I was living in Dallas.
My ex girlfriend had decided to leave me (once again), so I had no place to stay. I went to take a nap on the shoulder of a highway. An hour or two later, I woke up, as a raccoon was inspecting me, as if I was edible or not. That's the first and the only time I have actually seen one, but I thought... "That is one interesting creature!"
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They are.
Strangely, humanlike
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Humans are, strangly, raccoonlike.
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In response to “Humans are, strangly, raccoonlike.”
Ha!
What came first, mankind or racoonkind??
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Lizardkind, but don't tell them.
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Shhhhh
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raccoons?
I got your raccoons right here
wanna see my weasel?
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NO! Weasels are completely banned on this site! I hope... .. . .. ...
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most of my hides have been collected
gone off to auction
American fur, much higher quality then European
hoping my hides will keep some Nord babes warm
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Nord babes have the best hides. Unfortunately, it doesn't make them any sexier than an average bear.
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You can , but in most cases that's not advisable or ethical.
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Not ethical? They are raccoons. It's not like having a tiger, which is an actually endangered species.
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Endangered status isn't why
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What is? A chihuahua doesn't look like a wolf, but is still agressive towards other dogs, which, may I remind you, are just domesticated and selectively breeded wolves.
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The big cats didn't just turn to furry little things by accident, either. People turned them to trust them and now they are still a menace, but at least not going to eat you every time you open the door. Why wouldn't all of this selective breeding stuff (hey, we have DNA manipulation now!) work on raccoons as well?
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I just anagramed your name in an effort to divine some answer for you and came up with;
Lazy Slob Ken.
I think this answers the raccoon question :)
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Try my real name. You can find it in my profile.
I have no secrets. Well, maybe some from the Santa.
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A Motto, Resent Leukaemia Ken!
Ken it is then......
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I'm your Ken, Rabbit Hole.
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Close but no Cigar Ken :)
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**** off, Barbie, I have a better link for you... It's Finnish - who could've guessed...
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https://www.arrak.fi/en/ag
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https://wordsmith.org/anagram/
Seems I will have to up my game...... :)
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Yep. Welcome to the digital globalization of the world, babe. ;o) ;o) ;o)
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You should check my profile instead of living under the false impression of my gender :)
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New Zealand... Hobbits... Could be a male or a female... And possibly wizard with anger management issues. Nothing new. What about it?
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Yes both raccoons and amazingly squirrels. I've seen it.
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I kinda wished I could raise a tiger cub, imagine that a big **** tiger to be my pet and act like a house cat.
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Get a liger. That's the biggest cat there is, for now at least.
They can't reproduce, since they are like zonkeys. ;o) Hybrids. So, having one wouldn't cause any damage to the ecosystem, as such.
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Yeah then I'd have to feed it 50kg of cat food every day, I'd go bankrupt in a year xD
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I could always sell you an invisible elephant, but that would put me in jail for a year.
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If the raccoon is ready to give me the training fees then I can train and make it as a pet.
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So, basically you are not interested in other mammals than cats or dogs, which are already gone through the process.
There is a word for that... Wait... Wait... Wait... Yeah, you are being lazy.
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YEs
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