Watch This Before You Get A Pet Raccoon

the raccoon is a pushy animal it'll consider the house its big hole and will use the property as he pleases but one thing is when a raccoon comes into the house as an uninvited guest and quite another to turn it into an urban pet getting along with an adult wild raccoon is almost impossible therefore taming begins right from birth it is only when a human replaces its raccoon mother can it become a pet we need to feed him milk in a bottle we need to give him a tummy massage without it he cannot go to the toilet and it will die we need to warm it up raccoons don't have a good thermoregulation of the body and very often they catch a cold or get pneumonia they get sick heavily or overheat [Music] natalia has tamed several dozen raccoons it all began with two pets who natalya performed with in the circus arena since the time when she took work home led her fluffy artist to her house raccoons have forever occupied her living space the house of the trainer turned into the house of raccoons they breed fluffy predators and prepare them for adoption into urban families we don't give small raccoons away until they are two and a half or three months old but we really try to give them away at the age of five months old during this time the racoon is fully accustomed to food he's accustomed to independent life and most importantly it knows that people are good that people are his friends but before giving a raccoon to a new family the future owners are offered a brief acquaintance with it it takes only 30 minutes of communication and 8 out of 10 people who wanted to take a raccoon for upbringing permanently reject the idea it only seems from a distance that you can't find a creature cuter than them but it only takes to find yourself in their company when you begin to understand that they are much more small robbers unceremonious and tireless and literally turn your house into chaos in just a few minutes the raccoon's behavior is very similar to a human child's behavior of three to five years old it's just as naughty it's just as curious it also needs a mom it also likes to cuddle it also needs toys it really likes any toys you've noticed haven't you but even a tamed urban animal retains the instincts of a forest animal the wild character of the raccoons was experienced by our film crew too the entire team was tried by the little bandit's feet [Music] bites of course are not fatal but for an unprepared person they are quite painful but this is not an adult raccoon just a teenager who isn't angry but is only playing the future owner should be ready for the fact that the raccoon communicates using claws it's hugging like a child with its hands only on these hands there are sharp very sharp claws and scars will be appearing for sure you cannot escape them and when the raccoon has moods and even a well-behaved child can have moods the raccoon bites bites hard puts his teeth and claws into use sometimes you need to visit a first aid center and put the stitches on those wounds why are raccoons so attractive even with all their hooligan habits there are still people ready to happily give them square meters in their city apartments it turns out that having a raccoon in a house is like raising a child the animal for a wild animal has quite a high intellect and is very amenable to learning racoon is trained like a five-year-old you show what you need to do and suggest doing this to a raccoon and maybe not at the first attempt but he will do it from say the 20th time he will repeat after you of all animals it is only the primates who have the ability to repeat after someone no one else and the raccoons and we speak words of praise and give a delicious treat to the raccoon for this the raccoon begins to repeat this action with great perseverance demanding more delicious food i've understood how to control a human that's what i should do when zoologists studied the intellectual abilities of raccoons they discovered that these animals could open 11 out of 13 complex locks if the locks were interchanged the raccoons easily recalled how each of them unlocked scientists found out that the raccoon uses abstract thinking remembers the algorithm of actions and stores it in its memory for three years the only thing that raccoons categorically refuse to perform is the order you mustn't there are no prohibitions for them a raccoon is capable of carrying a cunning plan for a long time one day he'll catch the moment when he isn't controlled and he'll certainly do what he is forbidden to if a dog can be trained it will be a perfect obedient animal the raccoon is an individual it is impossible to train it to unconditional submission it'll never obey it's closer to the cat i understand master what you want i'll take this into consideration and maybe in the near future i'll consider it it won't perform if it doesn't need it and one more thing no matter how strong and mutual the raccoon's affection for a human is he'll remain faithful to him until the owner's first mistake as soon as there is the slightest opportunity to escape to freedom the raccoon will certainly take advantage of it such is the nature of a wild animal even the most comfortable conditions in a limited space for it is a prison and you cannot explain this to a raccoon that the chances of survival in the concrete jungle are almost zero

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Id: X7JSzAJ3vYs

Length: 6min 12sec (372 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 04 2021