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April 2009 
What Raccoons Eat...
Posted on Apr 2nd, 2008
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Wren
Wren
...There seems to be some understandable confusion so let me clear it up. I realize wrens, and raccoons for that matter, do eat bugs. But I do not. So, onewitheverything, thanks, I guess, for the chocolate covered ants. But I have, with many regrets, composted them...
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LOL!
We once acquired a young raccoon from some foolish young men who had separated it from it's mother. We kept it on our porch and fed it cat food and wild fruits (plums and berries). It's chain was long enough to climb up to our roof.
It was losing it's baby teeth late in summer and we had plans to release it before cold weather came on, as soon as the adult teeth had come in. One night it escaped with a collar around it's neck. I worried forever about it. The next spring, an adult Raccoon mom brought her babies to vist us and eat the cat food, the outdoor cats have on the porch. I believed willingly that it was the same raccoon.
They are very cute but not cuddly. Though I didn't know that the first time I reached out instinctively to touch the young one. Luckily, I wasn't bit but we did wear heavy gloves whenever handling it, while it was in our care.
Deborah