Woman in Washington state calls police to report many raccoons visiting her home

She gotta stop feeding unless she wants her house to be hous pf racoons

Can racoons be dangerous??

They seem to multiply rather quickly. Hope all goes well for both.

Kitty and I are nice to our local raccoons, and sometimes "share" our food. But we do have our boundaries.

Wild animals catch on quickly if someone starts feeding them.

What did she expect? Raccoons know a good food source when they see it.

That was so stupid of her to do.

I put the cat food up every night because I don't want the critters looking for handouts.

Now I feel sorry for the raccoons they were depending on her.

Disney really promoted racoons. They are very pretty animals but they also eat meat. Chickens are their favorite and they also are vicious. I know from personal experience though one of my brothers had a pet racoon named Charley.

They found a home away from home.

My Mom and step-dad owned a zoo for years. They retired and sold the zoo. But my Mom loves animals, and she started putting out dog/cat food for strays. She ended up having a deer stop by, A fox stopped in a couple of times, and then the Raccoons! She thought they were sooo cute. Well..they went on a trip to a Rattlesnake Rodeo, and when they came back...the raccoons had ripped the roof away from the chimney, and tried to get into the house because all the food was gone. My stepdad banned feeding any animals! Sooo my mom quit putting food out, but she had some peanuts and saw a squirrel, and of course tossed the peanut to the squirrel. The squirrel would watch for her to come outside, and she would call him and he came to get his pearnut. I was there one day at Peanut Time, and she didn't go outside to give him a peanut...he came up to the sliding glass window and tapped on the glass to get his peanut. LOL When they eventually moved...my stepdad told my Mom that she could not feed the animals, and this time she didn't...bad neighborhood anyways. LOL

There are no raccoons in my area; they'd be an invasive species so it's a good thing, but at the same time they're so cute and I wish I had them. I didn't know they were like pigeons, where you feed one and later you got an army. Feeding them all would be too much indeed, not to mention how faster diseases would spread, but look at all that cuteness! Oh my!