Why haven't raccoons become mainstream pets? Would you have one as a pet?
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No, but they're probably better than foxes as pets. I check out fox rescue channels from time to time, and I've learned that foxes are fricking disgusting creatures.
Oh details? I heard people give up pet foxes for different reasons. I wanted either a fox or a small monkey. Frick dogs.
This channel will tell you what you ought to know about foxes.
Most of the shit people complain about is basic animal nature, like marking behaviors, that they're unaccustomed to because their only experience is with dog and cat neutered/spayed when they were young. Also unless it's a species that is known to be docile you're going to deal with aggression because one of the main features of domestication is breeding for less aggression.
Foxes like to piss and shit quite a lot. Even the domesticated ones done by the Ruskies still have bathroom problems. That’s probably the main reason why they never became purchasable pets like Dogs and Cats.
Gray foxes do not have this issue, at least not to such a high degree as red foxes due to the fact they scent mark like cats.
However gray foxes aren't even really foxes at all, I've heard kit foxes are good and quiet pretty much all the time. Good luck getting one though, you'd either have to
>go to Mexico and find some back alley poacher that wastes their time by catching kit foxes
>go to Texas and capture one yourself
Just get a cat you fricking hipster homosexual
You mean a wild outdoors animal that is afraid of humans doesn't make a good pet? Wow, that's so surprising.
Frick you and frick your sarcasm, homosexual.
no u
>I've learned that foxes are fricking disgusting creatures.
>scatgay
>probably feralgay too
have a nice day
>tfw you will never have a fox waifu that likes to tear up stuff and mark her territory
No.
>one piece
So are cats and they are worshiped by billions of idiots. Fact of the matter is pet owners in general are filthy repulsive disgusting subhuman shit. Living with an animal is nasty piss and shit. That's all pet ownership is. And the reason we see so much pet ownership spam is because modern day losers don't know how to make friends much less find a significant other so they cope by getting animals they can imprison in their home forcing the animal to be dependent on them. Meh I don't care, pets are shit. Pets should be illegal. And pet lovers should be beaten to death, hanged to death, guillotined to death for being subhuman trash. Really hate these c**ts especially when they bring their animals to the super market.
Um.........What?
Cool.
>guillotined to death
>Really hate these c**ts especially when they bring their animals to the super market.
This really makes me angry. I hope every single super market chain endures a well earned lawsuit whenever their food is contaminated by filthy animals or if if an animal that was allowed at the super market attacks another customer or one of the security guards. That would start a chain of lawsuits. Hopefully painful enough to start openly banning animals at the super market.
>really makes me angry
Why? I've worked in grocery stores for years and never had this happen with ...dogs. Morbidly obese people shit themselves and dribble shit down the aisles and Black people and meth heads contaminate food and attack people but I've never seen dogs do anything but follow their owners.
take it to Cinemaphile
i kill raccoons
>Tries to be racist
>Leaves the fricking apostrophe on
This is the capacity of summergay we're gonna deal with, huh.
Coons are dangerous and filled with diseases, they should be left in the trash, I hate coons. Also you shouldn't have a racoon as a pet.
Much better!
Rabies
ferrets are best pets
I take your ferret and raise you a stoat
:3
What the frick is a stoat
basically the same thing
Aren't stoats wild :3 ? Cute lil buggers
Otters would be a good pet
They are, untill they take a crap and stink up the place.
How can something so small stink up such a large area.
>How can something so small stink up such a large area.
Sounds like you're speaking from experience, lmao
A friend owns a ferret?
My friend had one when we were kids.
nta, but my family had three growing up.
They're way more fun to watch than dogs or cats, but they shit CONSTANTLY.
They had a shared litterbox and would fill it twice a day.
It didn't help that their aim was awful, and they'd regularly flop shits over the side of the box.
Everything else was reasonable, but they're high maintenance and it's entirely because you have to keep fighting a wave of shit to keep the ammonia smell down.
Possum
they only live 2-4 years even in captivity, so they are kind of lame pets
True
rats also top out at 2 years, but really popular pets
You know, probably because of that movie because he kept harassing the dog which did nothing to return the harassment
It's just assumed the good guy's pet bullying the bad guy's pet is good and funny even if it doesn't really make sense.
Raccoons are so cute, wish my country had them. Would totally have one for a pet
Wrong board
Racoons are too thrifty. You'd never be able to keep them out of anything. I mean they have hands. Like legit hands.
>I mean they have hands. Like legit hands.
Yet I haven't seen any raccoons giving handjobs yet.
Dunno if I should be more concerned that you sound disappointed, or that you have been looking.
I have been looking, but I haven't found anything, so I'm disappointed.
Nothing wrong with copying Cinemaphile threads. If anything, makes Cinemaphile a bit more diverse and there's plenty of cartoon raccoons to talk about.
I fricking hate animals, but every once in a while I consider getting a german shepherd like I had as a kid, or a raccoon.
I never do because animals piss me off, and I know I wouldn't have the patience to deal with a raccoon, but it's tempting.
they're little bastards. cats with thumbs. they'll break into your walls
Also they'll eat anything and everything. And unlike cats, they don't die when they do.
What was his name? I always forget.
Raccoons are cute as frick but the adults are too aggressive and wily to keep as pets.
Now skunks and opossums, they're tame enough to make decent pets.
Cute coon, would pet.
I would pet it and finger it
Hot, tell us more.
but do opossums find garbage?
Mapache que porquería!
My dad had a racoon. Was nice until he grew up and then became a vicious mean bastard. They had to let him go.
Get a skunk instead. Dad wad very happy with his and as long as you're nice and don't do stupid things like startling them, they don't spray.
It's a common refrain in pet raccoon stories - they're sweet as babies, then turn into terrors as adults
you're fricking kidding, right?
tell me you're fricking kidding. jesus christ, how old are you.
Anon.... across the past 50 or 60 years or so... every single time there's been a popular movie about raccoons, it sparks a wave in people buying raccoons as pets. which turns out to be a TERRIBLE IDEA because most people don't understand the fact they're still wild animals even if they act docile much of the time. so the pets get abandoned, and then they breed, and then you have a massive raccoon infestation.
Japan is swamped with non-native American raccoons thanks to this little bastard.
>still no program made to try and make domesticated raccoons like that russian guy did with foxes
>still no uplifting program to make raccoons be smarter and know to do more with their human-like hands
Sciencegays what the FRICK are you waiting
Money.
The Russian "tame" fox program only started because serious biologists wanted to get far, far away from Lysenko's shit. He was a nutjob who had Stalin's ear. Moving to Siberia to work on an obscure long-term project was preferable (and safer) than being near Moscow and having to explain why Soviet agriculture was a total disaster.
Probably would need government money backing up the program and we need to send that money on the military.
Perhaps the military could benefit of such research too
when i was in boot camp they would make us salute a raccoon that lived in base.Everyone up too E5 had to or else they would get the shit smoke out of them fun time.
not that far fetched given military dogs outrank their handlers
Lol really?
Yeah, it was implemented to stop animal abuse or something like that.
That's actually a decent idea.
Cute.
All raccoons are.
Ask Japan.
The answer is no. Frick no.
I was wondering why this GUY sounds like a gay, then I realized:
>It's Digibro.
They’re greasy scavengers that are full of diseases.
>inb4 just like you/your mom
Just like your sister.
Don’t have one
>inb4 any other family or friends
Most wildlife make for shitty pets.
Most people are barely qualified to take care of a dog; they'd never be able to deal with something as intelligent and high-maintenance as a raccoon. You'd get so many morons buying their "uwu wholesome trash panda" without doing any research, with it inevitably being neglected and tearing up all their shit
What was his fricking problem?
Catgays are always wrong.
He's right though most people who get a raccoon or fox or something have no idea what they're doing.
Applies to all pets 2bh but with wild animals it's a lot more noticeable because they're higher maintenance
They open drawers and cupboards.
No, cos I wouldn't want my eyes scratched out of my head by a fricking psychotic wild animal just because they remind ppl of fat cats. Only reason we have cats as pets is cos they wait 2 or 3 days after we're dead for them to look at us as food instead of their furmommy or -daddy. Raccoons won't wait for us to die.
My dad had a pet raccoon. Said they had to let go of it after a year because it became feral.
>mfw no raccoon wife
my uncle had one
He would make them scrambled eggs everyday.
Raccoons are pretty friendly as far as wild animals go. I bet if some scientists (??) had enough money they could breed raccoons to be domesticated pets in a few generations
>noooooo we have we to spend money on domesticating brown people
just give up on them, they will never fit in with society
I think I'd rather have a pet Crow/Raven
>Capable of remembering faces
>Capable of doing shit exclusively for fun
>Some of them have practically done the corvid equivalent to domesticating wolves in the wild
>Can be trained to give you specific items in exchange for food/treats, even if born wild
>Can solve problems
>Can do cool voice mimicry stuff
>Big by bird standards, low chance of accidentally hurting it while showing it affection
>Belongs in the local ecosystem and won't cause any harm if allowed to be an outside animal, so don't have to worry about it shitting all over my house
Name one downside. Go ahead, I'll wait.
they'll use all that to frick with you too
Maybe because half of them still has rabies?
Maybe in the future when they are all vaxxed they will become domesticated.
>tfw no pet red panda
I'd rather have a bat.
Coon paws.
What are some other raccoon cartoon characters?
Arguably the most famous one
Besto mapache.
Wish he were my friend.
RJ
Loveable character