raccoon

You know the feeling of satisfaction you get from popping bubble wrap? Apparently we're not the only animals who enjoy it. If you've got a minute to waste, there's a video going around of a RACCOON doing it.

Since I'm the 'hillbilly' of our work crew my lovely co-workers sent me this video. It's of a man dancing on his porch with a raccoon, and it's quite humorous.

Kevin Rose is one of the founders of the website Digg. And yesterday, he uploaded a YouTube video of his tiny dog getting into it with a raccoon on the stairs outside his house. At first, it looks like the dog might be losing...until Kevin runs into the shot, grabs the raccoon, and violently THROWS IT DOWN THE STAIRS.

Sweden is fighting to keep raccoons out of the country.  The critters are a short expanse of water away, in Denmark.  The Swedes want no part of raccoons or their mischief, fearing decimation of wetlands and certain water fowl. Raccoons of course also can carry rabies.  It looks as if the main reason they don't want them in Sweden, however, is just the fact that they're considered an invasive spec