This is a great video showing a renegade baby raccoon refusing to enter its tree hole den. Mom is frustrated and makes repeated attempts to stuff the little bugger in, going so far as to grab it on the head with her teeth (this doesn’t look like a felid scruff carry!). She finally wins after a long struggle—after all, that baby carries half of her genes and has to be secured.
Unruly baby raccoon finally corralled by mom
August 24, 2017 • 2:30 pm
This racoon has reaffirmed my life choice to not have children.
Wise.
Not even if they arrive ready-peeled and roasted?
(Trying to remember the mythological character fed his children by a pissed-off Hermes. Probably several of them. Appears in the Norse canon too, IIRC.)
Someone has lost video game priviledges for tonight.
Hanging upside down by your back claws while grabbing the kid. You think you had a rough day.
While some of the other kits are nursing on her…
Funny. 🙂 They don’t listen to their mom just like human kids.
What amused me is the contrast between the two cubs (? kits?).
I know birds can vary hatching date by some days across a brood. I don’t think it’s feasible in mammals, but … anyone know counter examples? With a helpless (altricial? yes) infant, there could be appreciable advantages, if the mechanics could be managed. “IF”.
Maybe the kid is claustrophobic.
Does claustrophobia explain the low proportion of “born again” Xtians? Or is it the screaming and running for the hills on behalf of the mothers when the idea is broached?
I know everyone thinks raccoons are cute, but when I see one, I just think “rabies.”
A great ending when the little guy gets pulled under.
[Hums Jaws theme]
Dum da, dum da, dum da, dum da, dum da, [horns – sceeeech!] [piccolo – tweeeeet!] dum da, dum da, dum da,…
under – under – 7.
I think John Carpenter did it better.
Did I just remember the composer of a bit of movie music? No : “by composer John Williams”. Well at least that part of the universe is working to expectation.
From Wiki:
Ah, obviously a joke with pedigree.
Ah, here it is: shark theme. Youtube, fuller. But what sort of distorted Youtube algorithmmic logic put this next to Jaws?
I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to take mercury onto an airliner. Not that I actually have any. In any event, amalgamation is an interesting process. It’s used in teeth fillings, although now-a-days they use a ceramic filling material that’s white. Nice color for teeth.
You may be the only sentient being in the universe who’s actually read those signs.
That doesn’t excuse you from complying with their lists of exclusions.
Ya. All my stuff ends up in the dumpster.
Just the raccoon version of what most parents to thru @ bedtime. But I feel sorry for the kits. Imagine how stuffy it must be in there. Everyone in fur coats to boot…
Fur boots as well😬
Adorable. 🙂
I don’t see the kit as “bratty,” though. Looks to me as if it’s just learning to climb and hanging on for dear life.
Yes – to me, it seems very scared in the first half of the video.
Kids! Once she finally did get him back inside he probably refused to eat his oatmeal.
Reminds me of trying to get the cat to the vet.
*whew!*
I can breathe now!