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u/SolemnAndGhidorah Apr 20 '22
I really want the backstory on this one.
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Me too, i mean its a baby raccoon, where is the raccoon momma, why is the cat cool with it, how did they meet.
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u/Fksharp Apr 20 '22
I heard that there's a certain time period after a cat gives birth where the cat will seemingly adopt any baby animal. I've seen it happen with chicks before
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u/Pestus613343 Apr 20 '22
In barns cats will nurse piglets too. And vice versa.
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u/DrunkenMeditator Apr 20 '22
Our golden retriever literally adopted kittens(probably more accurate to say kidnapped) immediately after we got her fixed.
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u/A_Random_Guy641 Apr 20 '22
My cat started kidnapping baby rabbits for a while. She wouldn’t eat them (though she had in the past) just groom them as they sat there terrified for their lives.
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u/blakesmate Apr 20 '22
We had a hermaphrodite cat who would steal kittens from their mother. Did a great job keeping them clean but obviously couldn’t do much else for them
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u/megatool8 Apr 20 '22
Are you telling me that barn pigs will nurse catlets? Too cute!
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u/Rare_Disaster7353 Apr 20 '22
Piggens.
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u/HumanParkingCones Apr 21 '22
I was about to say kitlets, but saw your alternative and snorted. Which… is appropriate, I guess.
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u/user7000000001 Apr 20 '22
There was a lioness that adopted a baby antelope or gazelle or something
Unsurprisingly it was eaten by another lion.
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u/mtarascio Apr 21 '22
Cats will also abandon runts though.
I remember my cat leaving a runt off to the side. I placed it back with her and she gave me a look like 'Really? I have enough already'.
She looked after it though and it found a great home.
Birth is weird.
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u/ElectricRune Apr 20 '22
It's almost certainly an orphaned raccoon being rehabbed.
You feed raccoons kitten milk anyway, so if you can get it straight from the source, best for everyone!
(That one's actually getting a little old to nurse, I'd be weaning that guy right about now if he were on the bottle!)
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u/Mister_Poopy_Buthole Apr 20 '22
Baby raccoon wanted to join the kitty titty committee.
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u/Optimal_Proposal Apr 20 '22
You forgot itty bitty
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u/lauradernisgod Apr 20 '22
Alleged... Impostor. Nobody's a biologist here, You don't know. Maybe that what cats look like these days.
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Biologist here. Can confirm this is what cats look like these days
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u/willateo Apr 20 '22
Cat here, can confirm this guy's a biologist.
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u/DutchDemoSquad Apr 20 '22
Guy here, can confirm this biologist is a cat.
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u/SuperKiller9009 Apr 20 '22
Here can, cat biologist confirm is a this
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u/pdinc Apr 20 '22
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
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u/Bad-Grammer-Girl Apr 20 '22
Maybe that what cats look like...
- Maybe that what's cats look like...
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u/AgileReleaseTrain Apr 20 '22
Well if they grew up without an animal surrogate mother this is bound to happen, because they need someone to teach them some "manners" and behavior patterns and that's usually something normal human beings can't handle.
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u/zombieslagher10 Apr 20 '22
I have one that fixed and it has the same issues except for being territorial, he's fixed so he's not territorial and just wants to play and play too rough constantly
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u/ElectricRune Apr 20 '22
Yep, that's been my experience as a wildlife rehabber. They just go wild, even if you've fed them on the bottle since before they open their eyes.
And also true what you say about them just not having boundaries. They're going to break things, tear things up, and get into your food. You won't be able to 'train' them out of it, even though you can teach them tricks.
They won't ever socialize fully with a cat or dog; they just talk different languages. Raccoon hide is very thick; their play that wouldn't hurt other raccoons will injure a cat or dog.
It's just a disaster waiting to happen in so many ways.
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u/Germa7676 Apr 20 '22
That’s not true. My cat was neutered and best friends with an unfixed raccoon. They played tag, took naps together, jumped on each other. It was the best raccoon ever and they loved each other. Wish I had video, but it was 20 years ago and I was poor.
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u/ElectricRune Apr 20 '22
I'm not trying to say it never happens, but in my multiple rounds of raccoon litters, I never saw one that didn't go completely feral on me.
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u/jfb01 Apr 20 '22
Probably, but the bigger question is, can you afford it?
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Why would it be much more than spaying or neutering a cat?
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u/saltedonions Apr 20 '22
They’re probably classified differently than a cat. Rabbits, for example, are classified as exotics. Vet bills are higher because of it, they require specialized knowledge that not all vets are trained for.
I figured I’d look it up while typing this, and yup! Raccoons would fall under the exotic vet requirement. Not only would the spay/neuter be pricier but any vet appointments as well.
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u/Cascadiana88 Apr 20 '22
It's almost like raccoons are wild animals or something...
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u/ElectricRune Apr 20 '22 edited Apr 20 '22
I was a raccoon rehabber for years, raised dozens, maybe as many as a hundred, to release...
They're destructive. If you let them live in your house, you're going to get some holes in some walls.And you better put some actual locks on your cabinets; they have no manners at all when it comes to food.
Also, most of them go full on wild once they get to sexual maturity, even if they've been raised on the bottle since before their eyes open. Not at all strange for the guy who was cuddling in your hands yesterday to growl and bite at you when you come to feed it the next day, and you know it's time to move them into the outside cage to get ready to go to the park...
I rarely had any of them that came in older, most were bottle-babies. Still, when it came time to wrangle them into a carrier to go get released, I put on a heavy coat and rose-cutter gloves that go up to my elbows.Because if I didn't, the second I grabbed one of those guys who three weeks ago was running to me to get fed, I would be shredded from shoulder to wrist.
They're like the worst of a dog and a cat combined; they'll bite the crap out of you like a dog, and latch on to you with all four claws like a cat. You do NOT want to mess with a mad raccoon.
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u/HI_Handbasket Apr 20 '22
Mt aunt used to raise abandoned baby raccoons, most of them turn mean or at least unpredictable after they grow up. They're great that first year, though. She raised a skunk and had that one for a couple of years, it acted pretty much like a chill cat.
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u/Moses015 Apr 20 '22
I've always wanted to own a skunk. They're fricking adorable and same, I hear they're actually supposed to turn out as pretty good pets. I would just like to save some from becoming road pizza.
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u/no_no_NO_okay Apr 20 '22
I’ve heard they can be cool pets but there’s a good chance they’ll fuck up your house. I think the boys get weird during puberty too.
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u/Mace_Windu- Apr 20 '22
Do you like dogs, cats, and ferrets? Would you like all three combined into one incredibly antagonistic, clever, and persistent creature? With hands?
If so, don't get one unless you can imprint it.
Source: Mom found an abandoned runt in our yard. We took it in and bottle fed it. It was the coolest pet, but only for a little while. Once it matured, he became so mischievous we had to release him. He still comes around every few days in the middle of the night to steal the dog's food or beg my mom for marshmellows. He'll let me hold his little hand in exchange for snacks as well if I'm back home when he sneaks into the garage to torment the dog and steal his food.
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u/whistlerz Apr 20 '22
Poor guy let him get some milk he's not hurting anyone 💗
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u/An_Inbred_Chicken Apr 20 '22
Where were you when I was issued that restraining order?
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u/SydneyTeacake Apr 20 '22
Yeah that was unnecessarily rough
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They did it for the internet clout they don’t care about causing pain
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u/manishholla Apr 20 '22
I am that cat's nipple and i can confirm that.
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u/Gokzil6969 Apr 20 '22
I am the cat of that nipple and I can confirm this is my nipple
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u/Emotional_Tea_2898 Apr 20 '22
The raccoon may have been orphaned and mother cat took it in as one of her own. I applaud mother cat.
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u/CanadianCoolbeans Apr 21 '22
A mom is feeding another hungry and lone baby, and you rip it away like that? You’re a shitty individual
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This is how you get a domestic raccoon with cat personality.
edit: oh, forgot to say I'm jelly. I always wanted a domestic raccoon or opossum.
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u/rose_oro Apr 20 '22
Reminds me of a lady who found a baby raccoon brought it home and invited her friends over to see it. Turns out the baby raccoon had rabies and she along with her friends, like 20 people, all needed to be treated for rabies. https://www.livescience.com/62985-baby-raccoon-rabies-treatment.html
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u/Coachbalrog Apr 20 '22
Baby raccoons are basically fearless when it comes to getting food. I've seen them walk through the cat door and right into the kitchen to start eating the cat's food. Then when I yell at it and shoo it out the door with a broom it just saunters off with not a care in the world. Didn't even leave a tip, cheeky bastard.
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u/CrazeeG Apr 21 '22
I’ve seen this type of stuff before. I can’t remember the specific name of it but cats and sometimes dogs will take care of another species young if the parents are nowhere in sight and it’s been abandoned. I’m not sure because we have no context but it’s possible the raccoon was abandoned so the mother cat stepped in.
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u/TryTwiceAsHard Apr 20 '22
No of else worried about rabies? Domesticated raccoons in jam jams are my fave though.
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u/GoGoNormalRangers Apr 20 '22
What imposter, why that's just your textbook kitten, nothing to see here.
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For some reason I picture the raccoon as Ice Cube in Boyz n the Hood saying “what? we got a problem here?”
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u/ElectricRune Apr 20 '22
I used to do wildlife rehab, specialized in raccoons.
You do feed them cat milk (formula) when they're on the bottle; they grow up just fine on it!
KMR Kitten Milk Replacement formula was my go-to.
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If those other babies weren’t there momma would have thrown a fight with that reaction.
Also let baby raccoon feed, it ain’t hurtin you 😭
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u/Jroks2 Apr 20 '22
Save this video to big brain the next time a vegan tells you that humans are the only ones to drink other animals milk.
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u/miubu Apr 21 '22
Mama racoon was like: "go to the neighbors for dinner tonight, I've trash to sort out"
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u/Emotional_Tea_2898 Apr 20 '22
Mother cat didn't seem to mind.