Raccoons

[Greg Nog]

I love looking at pictures of raccoons!

[elpollodiablo]

Fuckin rakins, man

[Greg Nog]

SOMETIMES THEY ARE DEMONS

[Antero]

What the hell is up with the geometry there?

It's like R'lyeh or something.

[Greg Nog]

AAAAAAAAAAA

[davy]

[Greg Nog]

HERE COMES A GHOST

[Lucy]

[davy]

Also:

[Lucy]

I WILL EAT YOU!






J/K, LOL

[Ashley]

I am still learning the ways of living in a city with raccoons.  Before September I'm pretty sure I had never seen a real raccoon in my life, but High Park is rife with them.  There are a lot of outdoor cats too, so at night walking home I'd go FAT KITTY and my friends would be like "Uh joh that is a raccoon."

A few months ago I was sitting on my fire escape with my friend while he smoked, and I saw a tiny half chewed squash on the landing below us, so I ran down and picked it up and poked at it and laughed at it and threw it at the fire escape on the building next door.  (the two fire escapes are built together).  Then we sat and smoked more, until we heard strange noises coming from above!  Then down comes this lumbering raccoon waddle waddle and he chews on the squash and looks at us and we go OH RACCOON RACCOON.  Then he waddle waddles down the stairs and waddles away.

I was hoping we had a pet raccoon, but no dice.

[Greg Nog]

*light applause*

[davy]

[Aglaya]

This raccoon is very confused.

[Lucy]

And this one is intrigued:

[elpollodiablo]

Fuckin things that look like cats but they got these long beak-y nose things

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQ7bt5LBj8

[coldforge]

[milesofsparks]

why no pictures of ThunderPerfectCat?

[cold before sunrise]

When I got to Whistler last summer it was in the middle of a heatwave so one night I left the backdoor open and the house I was staying at was raided by a raccoon! They have thumbs and the ability to visualize what they are touching, everybody just thought the bandit crashing around our kitchen and rooting through cupboards was a roommate coming home drunk, he even went into my purse and stole a homemade dog treat I had brought as a gift. When we got up the whole downstairs had been ransacked. My host said it was a good thing I hadn't left the front door open or we might have woken up to a bear in the fridge.

[Antero]

Once, in San Francisco, my friend and I were driving around at near Land's End.  A coyote and a raccoon were walking along the edge of the street, side by side, like best friends in a cartoon buddy movie.  Amazing.

[El_Josharino]

Guys, did I tell you about my raccoon standoff the other night?
It was intense. I was getting home from a show around 1 AM, had a few beers, was feeling pretty alright, had swung by BK for a couple of dollar double cheeseburgers, like you do, etc. I was pulling up to park behind Steve's car, and there was a raccoon hanging out, staring me down as I approached. He hopped onto a snow drift and scurried into the tree in our front yard. I got out of my car and he was looking down from the tree, right at me. I knew that he could smell my burgers at this point, but those were for me. So I pointed at him, and said in a menacing tone, "RACCOOOOOON!" He didn't even flinch. I did it again. "RAAAAACCOOOOOOOON!" while inching my way up the driveway and onto the walk.
It was at this point that things got intense. I had to walk right under the tree that he was perched in to get to the house. Cutting through the yard wasn't practical because of the amount of snow still on the ground. I thought to myself, "I've gotta make this dude realize I'm bigger than he is." I stuck out my arms and started waving them around wildly (bag of burgers still in one hand...) and saying even MORE menacingly, "RAAAACCOOOOOOONNNN!" over and over. He finally backed off a little bit, and mostly hid behind a branch, but still kept one eye right on me. I kept up the arm-waving and species-name-chanting while I inched my way past the tree, and eventually up to my porch. I stared him down for a moment longer, just to make sure he realized who was the victor here, and he jumped down from the tree and retreated under Steve's car. I then celebrated with beer and burgers.

[mixed cats]

pfffff

[Greg Nog]

MORE RACCOON DRAWINGS EVERYONE PLEASE

[davy]

[Ashley]

Last night I was standing outside taking a break from getting my dance on while trying to light some strange girl's ciggarette because she couldn't light it herself, we saw a raccoon run down the street.  Then it climbed a building, and some drunk chased it and the girl whose cigarette I was lighting was like OH MAN DON'T DO THAT IT'LL JUMP YOU AND RACCOON YOUR FACE OFF I'M NOT GOING TO SAVE YOU then she and her friend had a conversation about whether or not they would help a person being attacked by a raccoon.