Every once in a while, you may see a raccoon being kept as a pet. While this isn’t legal everywhere, some areas do allow raccoons to be kept as pets. However, these animals aren’t domesticated and ...

According to her owner, Hungarian Vizsla, Waffles is happy, bright, and full of energy–which makes her the perfect playmate for best friend, June, an orphan raccoon taken in by the family. Watch Full ...

Ever woken up to find that a crafty raccoon has overturned your garbage bin and spread the discarded contents of your life ...

Watch a wild racoon play some lovely jazz on a mini piano. Racoons are known to be quite intelligent, with amazing dexterity, but the jazz raccoon goes above and beyond with its unexpected musical ...

A new bill in Tennessee could make it easier for people to legally own a raccoon, but wildlife officials are warning that does not mean they make good pets.Sena ...

These days, the internet’s favorite animals are trash-foraging critters like rats, possums, and especially raccoons. Raccoons (Procyon lotor) are little bandits that steal our hearts, again and again, ...

In the early 1900s, American scientists in the burgeoning field of animal psychology had a grand plan: Bring raccoons, a plentiful North American mammal known for its cleverness, into the lab for ...

For 10 days in early February, neighbors in South Philly tried to capture a raccoon that was struggling to survive amid the city's longest cold snap in more than two decades. Benito, as they ...