Who has a raccoon as a pet??

who owns a raccon are they alot of trouble??can u potty train them??playful?? anything? i think they r sooo cute.Who has a raccoon as a pet??
A long time ago my Aunt rescued a baby raccoon from a drain outside her house and she nursed it back to health. It was very cute and funny, but after about 2 months she had to turn it over to the animal rescue. After that she became very fond of raccoons and she started feeding them grapes and tomatoes and what ever they liked on her back porch. Every night they would come back and they got very friendly with her until one evening one ran into the house and cornered her and was growling and showing its teeth. It possibly had rabies or just showing its natural instinct. I think the moral of the story would be not to get one they may be cute and sweet but will attack anything that they think is a threat.Who has a raccoon as a pet??
My dad had one for a few years, but I wouldn't recommend it since his decided to ballistic on him (attacked his face!!) True story, it's a wild animal, don't try to tame them, they can be vicious.
you need to be a licensed rehabilitator to even work with these guys in most states. They are not domesticated, they are not a pet. One bite can give rabies.
My sister has had several , they become a lot of trouble as they get past the baby stage and become overly rambunctious . They are playful in the beginning but become progressively too rough and do not like to be held as they feel a need to be constantly doing something. As cute as they are they don't make good pets . In my sisters case she just raised a few babys whose mother had been killed and after they grew enough to take care of thereselves she released them together.
I do not own one, but one frequently knocks over my trash cans. I wouldn't want one as a pet, one of those rabies carrying critters. Sharp teeth too.
Raccoons are very cute, especially when they are young. They can be held but once they hit a year or so, nature kicks in. They are no longer the cuddly pet you had. Be careful. Bottom line is that this is a wild animal and will revert to it's natural instincts.
Yes they are very cute but they do grow up and you have to remember they are nocturnal. I owned one for a while and as it got older I learned they arent very good pets they also hide there poop wich is really nasty hope I was of any help and dont forget most places require you to have a permit to keep them in captivity.
Racoons are not recommended as pets. They are not domesticated and can harbour rabies. I knew someone who took care of three orphaned racoons for a while, and they became fairly friendly, but under the law they had to be returned to the wild when they reached a certain age.
a friend of mine, a farmer, used to take in orphaned raccons every spring. they would be so cute and funny...play with his cats and dog (I think the dog knew all along that these funny masked cats that got really big were not cats at all). But they would get big and just wander off to play in the creek, eventually they liked crawfish more than cat food and you would never see them again....until the next late summer when the sweet corn patch had little cobs on the stalks...my friend tried everything, even a electric fence...the darn 'coons would just pull down regular field corn stalks over the ';hot'; wire and bridge the fence...he never had a good sweet corn crop...he still likes those baby raccoons and will still take them in.
It is illegal to own a Raccoon as a pet unless you have a wildlife license. Raccoons are a carrier for Rabies. They can be born w/ the Rabies virus, and don't usually show symptoms for it. They are carriers, just like some humans are carriers for HIV but don't show any signs of the disease. They are wild animals and are unpredictable in their behavior. Please do not try to keep a wild animal as a pet.