Raccoons are really so adorable. They look like little puppies. They also do this little rolling thing that is do darn cute. My heart breaks any time I pass one that was hit on the road. Especially when you see a little raccoon that probably just left its mother or the mother and her babies. Just so heartbreaking.
But they will fuck up your dog or cat.Raccoons are really so adorable. They look like little puppies. They also do this little rolling thing that is do darn cute. My heart breaks any time I pass one that was hit on the road. Especially when you see a little raccoon that probably just left its mother or the mother and her babies. Just so heartbreaking.
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racoons are tree rats.Raccoons are really so adorable. They look like little puppies. They also do this little rolling thing that is do darn cute. My heart breaks any time I pass one that was hit on the road. Especially when you see a little raccoon that probably just left its mother or the mother and her babies. Just so heartbreaking.
Sorry to go on but the unwelcome truth is a dog can carry all those diseases and more if not vaccinated. Raccoons are actually cleaner than dogs to be honest. Raccoons do not eat feces while dogs do. Feral cats are easily far more dirty than raccoon. Alot of the negative stereptyping of raccoons is not based on any fact. It's based on ancedotal experiences with them rifling through human trash and nothing more.
like rats and feral cats, they do not serve a civilized purpose and bring only negatives.
No, for any non-domestic animal.
But dogs are vaccinated.
Yes they do. They keep a balance in the environment by eating all sorts of invasive insects, plants, rodents, fruits and marine pests. They only seem to be bothrrsome because they are so successful living in and around human settlements like pigeons. However this is due to both the success of humans AND racoons.
Some are. The only reason dogs dont seem to be a problem is you spent billions of dollars on animal control over the last 100 years. You continue to have dog pounds and extensive adoption networks to prevent them from running at large. Nothing like this exists for racoons. Feral dogs used to be a huge problem. Unlike racoons which are usually shy, feral dogs are more territorial and less afraid of humans. They are a HUGE problem and a major source of rabies, worms and other infections in the third world where animal control programs are weak and almost nonexistant. This idea that dogs and cats are clean is a western perspective. They are viewed as pest animals in most parts of the world. Infact if you ask people in Africa or central and south America and asia what are the dirtiest animals i guaruntee dog and cat will be top 5 alongside rats.
Because raccoons are wild animals and dog are domestic. The rest of your post is irrelevant gibberish.
And in some countries, they are viewed as lunch.
Domestication doesn't make an animal more or less dirty though and thats what i mean by perception. You just think it's cleaner because you see it as a pet and the racoon is dirty because it's wild but your pet actually has more harmful bacteria that can be transfered to humans than a racoon has.
Alot of people dont differentiate dogs from other dirty animals like pigs.
Animals that are selectively bred are also taken better care of than wild animals. So yes, domestic animals are actually "less dirty" than wild animals.
I sure don't.
They are selectively bred for behavioral and physical traits but you cannot change their biology to make them "cleaner". This is purely your preception that dogs are clean but it's not based on fact. Dogs spread more illnesses to people than raccoons do.
It's the level of care they receive that does that.
Seeing as people generally will go their entire life and never have physical contact with a raccoon. That isn't exactly a revelation. Dogs also attack more people than, well, I believe any other breed of animal. It doesn't mean a golden retriever is more dangerous than a tiger. Except for maybe
@Jdog93 He's a bad mofo.Not entirely accurate.
and that's the difference between a domestic and a feral dog.
No. A ferel dog is a descendant of a domesticated dog that returned to the wild. So it should have no less pet quality breeding traits than any other domestic dog of its breed(s).
