Hi Well yes raccoons can be cute, especially the little ones. They are also fierce, nasty and can carry rabies. They will get into and tear your trash apart, in the summer if you have one of those above-ground put together pools they'll tear them up. They'll leave lovely piles of very stinky "thank-yous" when they're done. My roommate and I were literally chased (screaming like girls) up the front steps of the house by a LARGE male raccoon. They move fast! also do this weird growl/snarl thing and bare their teeth. Not something you want your first-grader to ever run into.
If at night, depending on where you live, you hear weird noises - not cats meowing or squirrels - raccoons make a pretty distinctive sound, you can just hold her up to the window and let her look out at them. But if I were you I wouldn't go outside to try to get closer. Wendy On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Mimi Iijima <[email protected]>wrote: > My first-grader and I would like to hear about raccoon sightings in the > neighborhood. Inspired by the children's classic book Owl Moon, my daughter > is interested in going to spot nocturnal animals -- the cute ones, that is. > Please e-mail off-line. > > Thank you for your help! > > R. Mimi Iijima and Nao Minicola :-) > > ------------------------------ > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it > now.<http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/> >
