Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I got it! … dang. Wait, I … ah, the heck with it.
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“I got it– I got it– I got it — I don’t got it. “
“You klutz!”
(Hope it wasn’t a deposit bottle…)
*giggle* Goonies ref! YAY!
to me, that is a “High Anxiety” ref – not so familiar with
“The Goonies”…
Yeah, I went to High Anxiety, too. Even though Goonies is more my era. Mel Brooks is a comedy god, however.
Every needs a baby coon bathroom accessory.
I’m so in love. I NEEEED! Please tell me Bed Bath & Beyond isn’t selling em.
OK.
“Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’ t selling ‘em”.
Howzat???
Signed,
cooperative
catch a falling water, put it in your pocket, never let it drain awaaaayy…
Ha! Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Fallingwater: the live-action version.”
I found watching this video very draining.
(sidenote: have you seen the Lego Fallingwater? muy awesome.)
I thought you were pulling my Lego, but wow! It really does exist and it is awesome!
Opposable EVERYTHING!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww!
I need a baby bandito in my bathtub !!!!
Want Want Want !!! (stamping my foot pouting )
Two turn table & a water stream
Wait… Beck?
TOO CUTE!!
Stamping with MudBug..
Me too! I have always loved racoons and this is one of the cutest things I’ve seen in my life. If you (generally speaking) don’t find this cute, then you’re dead inside.
Perfect caption, NTMTOM!
This just goes to show you that a raccoon will try to collect *anything* it runs across. Even water. Also, my bbq utensils set from my back yard… Although this is much cuter.
This tub needs more crayfish.
and also “needs more cowbells”.
Signed,
Christopher Walken.
Or, depending on your region, crawdads.
Poor bebeh racoon! “I can see it but I can’t catch it!” (it’s like a zen koan kinda thing)
“And I can’t seem to get a grip on that round shiny rock, either! Dang!!”
Precious water! Where is it coming from?! Must not let it escape! Seems to be AHH cold, so cold shudder shudder What is this shiny disc? Is this the source? Is this… AHH so cold… Must–turn–shiny–disc! Contain the precious fluids! Must catch it! Must AHH too cold, I’m out dawgs.
GAW!! Babeh coonie …those feets! Splish Splash, he was takin’ a bath and I’m ded from the cuteness of it all!
This clip is ALL OVER the internet lately! Not that i’m complaining, it’s just funny.
Regardless, this baby raccoon is the cuteist thing EVER. The little hands are adorable, esp if you’ve ever seen a raccoon dunking it’s food, it looks like they are washing it, even thou i doubt they are. What a sweetie!!!!
Yep, and that is why, in German, raccoons are called Waschbären, which translates as “washing bears”.
Thank you. That is a random trivia item I needed in my brain!
Happy to oblige.
And in Finland they are called ‘pesukarhu’, meaning a washing bear as well.
I remember reading a book about a guy who raised a raccoon; and yes, the raccoon DID wash his food. (Although, after the first one dissolved, he never washed sugar cubes again!)
IIRC, the raccoon (and possibly the book) was name ‘Rascal’.
Yes! And the author was Sterling North. It was a true story. He had the pet raccoon during WWI.
Oh! I read that book! Along with Ol’ Yeller and Balto and and and… basically every animal story there was.
From the All-Mighty Wikipedia…
Raccoons sample food and other objects with their front paws to examine them and to remove unwanted parts. The tactile sensitivity of their paws is increased if this action is performed underwater, since the water softens the horny layer covering the paws.[89] However, the behavior observed in captive raccoons in which they carry their food to a watering hole to “wash” or douse it before eating has not been observed in the wild.[90] Naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) believed that raccoons do not have adequate saliva production to moisten food, necessitating dousing, but this is certainly incorrect.[91] Captive raccoons douse their food more frequently when a watering hole with a layout similar to a stream is not farther away than 3 m (10 ft).[92] The widely accepted theory is that dousing is a vacuum activity imitating foraging at shores for aquatic foods.[93] This is supported by the observation that such foods are doused more frequently. Cleaning dirty food does not seem to be a reason for “washing”.[92] Experts have cast doubt on the veracity of observations of wild raccoons dousing food.[94]
So… raccoons all have OCD?
Wow, Rosie Posie, you really had me going there until I got to “Comte de Buffon” – Ha ha! Good one!
umm, it’s actually a real title. Wikipedia sez “Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author.”
Buffon is a town in France (in a fancy-pants wines sub-region of Bourgogne ). I guess the Count was from that region
and I bet he got to drink really good fancy pants wine in his days…
But back to raccoons and water!
They do wash their food.
Also, if you ever get a chance (safely, of course) take a good look at the palms of their hands. Jet black and very human looking. They have great dexterity!
What a cutie! :::Okay, back to watching ShibaPuppyCam:::::
baby racoons … smelliest of the smellies that smell smelly
seriously – phew !!!
Thus the bath?
“How smelly are they?”
“Dora was SO DUMB, that ….”
*checks bathtub* Shoot! No babeh racoonies! *pouts*
Mine either. = sigh = Maybe if we fill them with water, baby raccoons will magically appear. “If you fill it, they will come.”
Uh, fill the tubs with water, not the baby raccoons. Bad grammar there.
I have no problem with a tub filled with baby raccoons.
I was just thinking that!
such a patootie! looks like he’s busily sculpting an invisible sculpture…
Yes, and on a deadline!
Varmint bathing. The latest interweb meme.
Oooh, my love-hate relationship with raccoons is a complicated one. They mob my camera-trap so I get thousands of photos of nothing but their beady eyes and whiskers, they try to sneak into our garage for unknown nefarious purposes, they severed the tail of my friend’s grandmother’s cat, and at the wildlife rehab center they were the most messy, filthy, noisy patients ever… but then I see videos like this and want to cuddle them and smooch them on their dirty little noses and give them cutsey names and PUT THEM IN BATH TUBS!! My heart is torn here.
Baby raccoon, it’s a baby raccoon,
It’s a baby raccoon, and he’s playing the bassoon . .
I wonder what the raccoon was thinking. I mean, of course, to a human, this is an endearing video of an animal engaging in something that seems superfluous. I just wonder what it is that s/he was trying to do. (Sorry to take it to an intellectual level).
Regardless, it’s REALLY fun to watch things like this.
With Love and Gratitude,
Jeremiah
Goes under “Doesn’t get the concept” LOL
and the leetle hainds!! omg
Just like my cats. Similar to trying to catch the little red dot.
Sooooooooo Cuteeeeeeeeeeee!!! I watched it over, and over again!
Give it an egg!!!!! It needs an egg to wash! Give it!!!
They’re such smart animals that if we gave him another minute or two, he’d figure out how to work the plug and temp control!
Oh, better hope he never learns how to work the plug! Can’t you just imagine gallons and gallons o’ water splashing out over the top of the tub and Little Mr. Raccoon riding the waves out into the hall, just before the floor collapses into the ground floor from the weight of the water, and…and…!!! Wait…gotta catch my breath!
Once that guy grows into his hands and feet, we’re all in trouble.
Okay I washed my hands. Now time to raid the garbage. Please tell me you didn’t bungee chord it.
To all those who commented in their washing behavior, may I point out Procyon lotor Means “Before-dog washer”. I think the first part of the scientific name comes from their position in the order Carnivora compared to canids, but the name referencing that behavior proves scientists noticed it.
Could you tell the little rascal to stop stealing stuff, lest he be associated with human bandits… although the facial markings don’t help much. Speaking of raccoons, look at t5he comic i made with one.