raccoons

Where rural raccoons took a long time to approach novel containers, city raccoons would attack them the moment she turned her back.

For instance, rural raccoons are far more likely than city raccoons to have people in their territory that are keeping chickens for meat and/or eggs.

It's a particularly odd response to a story whose moral is that raccoons don't make good pets.

Torontonian Raccoons are resilient but for the most part try and stay out of sight/out of the way of humans.

According to the study, observations of raccoons have declined 93 percent, bobcats by 87 percent, and possums by 98.9 percent.

They have wiped out the mid-tier mammals (raccoons, bobcats, etc) where ever they have spread.

Like raccoons, compelled to collect shiny things, but never doing anything useful with them.

Go out the next night with your shotgun and blow the raccoons away.

I've heard raccoons killed outside my window, I've seen bunnies dead from being fed rat poison, etc.

There's an unsupported assumption here: we don't know that raccoons and fox have the same crime rate.

Considering how few generations it took to breed tame foxes, I'm surprised no one has done it for raccoons.

By contrast, the years I spent living in rural places I encountered much more sensible attitudes towards things like raccoons.

They’re known to carry rabies, and a 2011 report in the Journal of Parasitology even found evidence for the potentially dangerous and brain-altering parasite Toxoplasmosa gondii in raccoon droppings." It would be fairly surprising if raccoons didn't carry toxoplasma: pretty much every US cat does, about 60 million Americans, and 5-7% of Japanese cattle and swine.

Raccoons carry a virus [Baylisascaris procyonis] that is especially bad for humans.

Raccoons are also important vectors for the spread of infection diseases.

Raccoons are incredibly common here in Downtown Toronto.