Everybody likes cat food

I don't love raccoons, but the babies at this stage are cute like puppies, bumbling around and playing with each other. The mom came out of a storm drain with four babies. Three hid under the porch. The fourth tried to eat the food, she batted him away until she was finished, then let him eat. And then she looked around for her other babies.

And where are my cats while raccoons are eating their food?

Shot through a window. If I go outside, they run away.

[margonaut]

So adorable! A friend of mine feeds dog food to the raccoons that live in the woods behind her house. I only found out when I saw her buying it at the grocery and asked if they'd gotten a dog.

[katy]

This is so precious! I’m so jealous you got such clear shots of them. My groundhogs aren’t this cute. I haven’t seen them in a while either but they are there.

[*lynn]

Cute babies. Your pictures remind me of when my kids had a pet raccoon. He got along well with our cats.

[aikiuser (jenn)]

I love raccoons, such rascals! Yeah, they can be pesky, but look how cute they are!

[John]

Where’s Rocky??

[haskar]

Raccoons in Poland are an invasive species. They look wonderful, but they are a big problem.

[Dione Giorgio]

Very cute capture. The little ones are a joy to watch chasing about without worries.

[Helge E. Storheim]

Very cute. Nice shots

[Diane]

@margonaut @grammyn @lynnz @congaree @sangwann @helstor365 Thanks! I know raccoons cause problems, but the young ones are so cute.
@haskar Raccoons are considered a nuisance species where I live and trapped ones are euthanized. I realize I'm part of the problem because I feed stray and feral cats and the food attracts the raccoons. But the cats were neutered through a trap-neuter-release program that tries to control the population of stray cats and we agreed to feed them. Sometimes it's hard to know what's best.

[Laura]

Cute collage.

[marie-elizabeth]

They are adorable!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Fun to watch for sure. They are less "pesky" here because they have the woods and generally stick to them. But I think a raccoon was the culprit who destroyed my new bird feeder this year- just yanked it down and tore it apart! It was too close to the house to be a bear. Fun collage.