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Woman Calls 911 When 100 Aggressive Raccoons Show Up in Her Yard | The Washington State resident fed some friendly critters for years. Then, their mean friends turned up. (www.nytimes.com)

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This is one of many reasons I don't intentionally feed raccoons.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's not a hard problem to solve. Raccoons are incredibly smart, and if you stop feeding him, they'll eventually disperse. In the meantime, it's kind of a cute oafish story.

Feeding a wild raccoon isn't going to make it forget how to scavenge, or take care of itself. If you live in a remote area, probably not doing any long-term damage to their wild habits, aside from this one feeding ground they will have to move on from.

Apart from her not having a game plan for getting around a raccoon bum rush, the biggest concern I would have would be that raccoons are a reservoir species for rabies in the PNW.

Not sure when exactly this raccoon party fully kicked off, but their breeding season is spring and summer, which I believe coincides with a spike in rabies transmission...so....that's not ideal.