hzmeyer wrote:
We have racoons that would raid our bird feeders. I had a bag of dog food that no one would eat so I put some out for the racoons. They loved it. As the weeks went by, more than a dozen would show up. Eventually, they let me walk out into the crowd and feed them by hand. Sometimes I had to push them aside with my foot to get out the door. When they took the kibble from my fingers, they were so gentle I could barely feel their touch. Let's stop bad mouthing racoons- there are bad guys in every crowd.
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You are so right! I soak the cheapest dog food I can buy at Walmart to feed my very wild and timid racoons. They devour it in no time at all. I used to have / see one small female that I fed by hand sometimes. I have a video from a wildlife cam showing her with me. I don't try to encourage them to eat from my hand any more since I googled up the cost of the rabies shots in the US. You have to take a series of them too. I still enjoy watching them eat their supper though.