Posted by IsoM on October 21, 2002, at 13:58:12
In reply to Re: Dreamer, posted by Tabßitha on October 20, 2002, at 22:16:52
Have you ever had a chance to hold a racoon, Tabby? I got to cuddle a baby racoon for a while. The fact that it peed on me didn't bother me a bit. I just washed & changed afterwards. Their little paws/hands are so amazing. The pads on the bottom of their paws are incredibley soft. Imagine the finest kid leather gloves filled with soft, soft fill but so warm. He kept making soft little sounds & was so cuddley. I'm terrible. I feel more motherly with baby animals than I do with human babies.
I would've loved to have him but racoons can become cantankerous when grown. Perhaps a neutered one wouldn't be but it would seem cruel.
I read a book years ago of a woman married to an old style forest ranger. They lived way out in the woods & she adopted an orphaned racoon. They're very clever & he would open his cage & escape when they weren't home, wreaking havoc. She came home one day to find her racoon had opened her India ink (for her sketches) & spilt it about. Not only that, but he'd dipped his paws in it; there was little black paw prints on *everything* & going up the wall as high as he could reach. She accompanied her story with her sketches & the one she did on the paw prints was my favourite.
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