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.

Nemo ,

If they weren't up to no good, why would they wear masks?

No but seriously they will straight-up murder chickens for the fun of feeling the hens' necks snap under their fingers.

Nutteman ,
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Maybe stop anthropomorphizing animals with human concepts like morality and just accept them for as they are?

Legend OP ,

No . why should i ? I can understand they are what they are but that doesn't mean i have to like or accept them i am free to dislike them .

Nutteman ,
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You're are, it's just you're having a weird problem thanks to your weird beliefs, which would be remedied by trying to actually align your beliefs with reality, but instead trying to get Lemmy users to help you decide where raccoons align on your good/bad chart lmao.

Legend OP ,

Wtf does " you're are" mean ?

ExcursionInversion ,
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So you don't like or accept any mammals because they are animals?

Legend OP ,

Wut ? Wdym accept how do you do that I think everyone is neat and their all strangers anyway.

Nutteman ,
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Okay I understand now that you lack some basic social skills. Maybe work on those before engaging on the internet.

Legend OP ,

🖕

Nutteman ,
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Lol guess I hit on a sore spot

Legend OP ,

No. I just thought an imoji was enough .

Nutteman ,
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Wtf is an imoji???

Legend OP ,

🤷

Nutteman ,
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notnotmike ,
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This is a really toxic way to look at animals. You should enjoy them not because they are cute and loving but because they are incredible beings that help craft the ecosystems in which we thrive. If not like them, then hopefully you can at least respect and accept them for what they are.

As to your original question, raccoons are incredible animals. One of the few species who are so adaptable that they can manage to survive in our concrete world, despite our efforts to stop them. They're very intelligent and dexterous and it's incredible they continue to survive and borderline thrive at times.

Legend OP ,

See my edit it explains my view .

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.

tobogganablaze ,

Like many other mammels male raccoon will kill offspring of other males to speed up the mating availibility of a female raccoons.

Legend OP ,

Fuck, this one did it for me .

Pronell ,

I think it's better to not look at it as good and evil but as joy and pain.

There will always be both joy and pain in the world. And there isn't even a 'balance' between the two. Some experience more pain than joy. Some, more joy than pain.

Part of the trick is to learn to focus on the joy. The pain will be there and requires acknowledgment, not attention.

dingus ,

I like this take. Thank you for your words.

Pronell ,

Nature gets brutal sometimes. One of my dogs once killed another dog, but she's always been a total sweetheart to me.

Raccoons are cute, curious, critters with thumbs. They like to wash their food. They're adorable!

But they are also wild creatures that will bite when scared and can carry dangerous diseases.

Nature gets brutal.

Pandananana ,

Was it a smaller dog that was eating your dogs food or that surprised your dog?

Pronell ,

She was named Beta, a yellow lab who was housed with a yorkshire terrier, constantly yapping and nipping at her.

Eventually she snapped.

At the time the owner was pregnant so there was no way they could take the risk.

My wife and I adopted her because we already had another dog from the litter, her sister Violet. We renamed her to Veda.

Never had a problem. She growls softly when her lines are crossed but is otherwise a perfectly snuggly girl. Getting on in years but still with us.

LaserTurboShark69 ,

Animals lack morality. Raccoons would hunt humans for fun and food if they were capable.

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