My Family used to have two cats, one of which had coloring similar to a racoon, but we had never really thought about it before. She also had long hair, so she looked bigger than she actually was.
One night, my brother looks out the window and says "hey, there's Whiskers (yes, that was her name.. the other one we called Sushi), I'm gonna go get her." So he walks onto the porch, bends down and reaches out to grab her, and suddenly stands up and backs away. I go out and ask him "what's wrong?" and look as Whiskers.. but it wasn't whiskers.. it was a racoon eating their cat food.. and it seemed to have no problem with my brother attepmting to pick it up, because it just kept on eating the food!
Silly I know, but that;s my encounter.
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