Hey i just wanna know are raccoons evil in some kind of way ?

A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in anymore so give it to me straight are they as they seem ?

Edit : To reduce confusion and to not have to answer to duplicate comments NO I do not hate animals . I think they are all neat and they are what they are and I don't hold them up to humans standard but I'm not an animal person like cat people or dog people either . I hope this clears it up.

xc2215x ,

No. They are not.

MicrowavedTea ,

What the others said, animals aren't "evil". But I'm curious now, what did hamsters do?

Pronell ,

Eat their young when they are in a confined space that appears to not support the population.

In a sense, we make them eat their young by putting them in cages and breeding them.

But it is behavior learned in the wild - keep alive only the babies you can actually support, or else everyone dies.

meowMix2525 ,

Eating their young seems to be their first response to any form of stress actually

Legend OP ,

Eat their own kids

Death_Equity ,

I used to work in a pet store.

There were two white with black spot "teddy bear" hamsters that had "wet tail"(diarrhea) and they were being kept in the back together while they were given antibiotics to get them well so they could be sold. They had it when they came in, unfortunately very common for factory farm raised hamsters.

After a day or two of them being there I came in to open for the day and give them their meds. I flipped over the plastic igloo they were nesting in and there was only one there. I closed the store the previous night and had given them their meds, I knew there was two in there 12 hours prior. I was standing there looking at the 5 gallon aquarium they were in and was trying to think through the early morning brain fog as a bloody hamster face poked out from under the singular fur ball.

I then understood that the one hamster has eaten the other and hollowed it out to make a cow pattern meat igloo out of its sickly cage mate. Hamsters may be cute, but they will upcycle a friend into eco-friendly housing and a midnight snack. They are adorable monsters and we pretend they aren't and give them to kids in brightly colored habitats, as if they are different than Gacy in a clown costume.

MicrowavedTea ,

I know I shouldn't but I laughed. Thanks, I'll now keep thinking about this every time a kid says they want a cute hamster.

Bytemeister ,

Honestly, Skunks, and maybe Possums. They are omnivores, so there is a certain amount of "will kill and eat other living things" but generally they have chill vibes and prefer to eat roots and garbage.

Raccoons aren't necessarily evil, but they are definitely chaotic little shit bastards.

BonesOfTheMoon ,

Funny I just saw this in the news today:

https://globalnews.ca/news/10483075/zombie-raccoon-virus-cdv/

intensely_human ,

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

Paragone ,

Raccoon-medicine is the medicine of helping-friends.

There was a meme going 'round, where somebody had put up a bird-feeder or something, and they had it about 1 yard/metre off the ground, to prevent the raccoons from getting food from it..

.. a whole heap of them formed a living-ladder, so one of 'em could get at the food.

That is the brilliantest demonstration of exactly what some Indigenous religions have said about 'em, that anybody could ever ask for.

Read "Medicine Cards" by Jamie Sams, for a good survey of animal-spirits: it's reasonably accurate.

I'd add to it that upright owl-medicine is the medicine of meditation, but Indigenous religions didn't dig into that kind of thing, only inner-winds peoples did ( Asian region ).

( and anybody who goes & lives among wilderness for awhile will learn animals' natures/spirits specific to that locale, obviously )

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Smoogs ,

Wow you really overshot that post.

dingus ,

Is this AI?

Legend OP ,

Wut ?

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