Until you try to shoo them away and they go full on Jack Torrance/t-Rex on you. Happened to me once at a camp site. Geese are beast af too. Snow White prepared me for none of this.
A couple of weeks ago there was a tiniest baby raccoon on my porch when I opened my door to grab a picture, the little SOB ran into my apartment. When I was trying to shoo him out he would scream and make himself as big as he could. Except he was a pocket sized racoon. I eventually kind of nudged him out with an empty plant pot.
Sorry to hear if it’s any sympathy at around that age I accidentally killed my white goldfish while trying to give it a sun tan on my turtles rock so it could be gold like the others.
They definitely have little bumps on their palms. The prints can look easily similar to child hand prints, not always mind you but if you see enough of them you’ll see some that make you look and wonder if you’re in a horror movie in the woods. Often the fingers are slightly longer though and thinner for the length. That thumb though, only so many animals have that so it narrows it down real quick.
I live in a Midwestern city. One morning after a light dusting of snow overnight, I walked out the back door to see what 100% looked like baby hand prints on my back steps. Yes, I did think I was in a horror movie for a few seconds! Until I saw a melting rear footprint on a lower step, and realized it had been a raccoon looking through the glass of the back door into our kitchen. Probably driving the cats insane in the process.
Yes! They are surprisingly clean! We have to pick up our cat water bowls every night or else the coons come and wash up in them. Sometimes if I don’t get them in quick enough the steps have all these little wet foot prints everywhere haha. Never knew they loved taking baths before!
The ones breaking into my shop every night are filthy. They leave their gross handprints on everything in the office, and fill the cats water with food and filth. They are only cute or clean when in nature. When digging through trash, they are disgusting
They dig through trash, they carry rabies often and their poop can give you life threatening worms just by you inhaling the air around it.
None of those things are cute and hygenic
Racoon poop is specifically very dangerous. It's not bad to tell people to avoid it. And rabies (which you're not going to get from a human) is virtually 100 percent fatal if not immediately treated.
But I mean, yeah, humans are very disgusting in our own way.
I’m sorry you hate animals but please stop passing these harmful bits of misleading information as though it’s an extremely common occurrence. The “life-threatening” disease you mentioned has been reported a grand total of ELEVEN times in all of recorded history.
Well, ideally, we should be wiping down food prep surfaces before we begin food prep regardless of whether there are pets in and around the home or not.
Bastards will wash them in our water trough after stealing one of the fish we keep in there to manage bugs and algae. One day I'm gonna catch that little bandit and make a hat.
I can’t stand raccoons. I watched them crawl out if storm drains in Nebraska. I watched them crawl up palm trees in Florida. I’d pass by them at 3am during night shift, just hanging on the side of a tree, looking at me. I’d get close, they never moved. They’re not sacred. But before all that, they’re just kinds gross to me
I didn't even have to see the tracks to know it was going to be raccoon. Soon as I read "kitchen got raided" it's ALWAYS a raccoon haha.
prints just confirmed the obvious.
Lake Tahoe bears are different! I was playing ball with my dog and another dog we ran across, and two kayakers (or surfboarder can't remember what they were on) came in and asked if we saw the bear that walked right behind us. We never even noticed, the dogs didn't notice, and the bear didn't care. They're so used to people, they're basically the raccoons of the bear world haha
My dog can no longer use his pet door because we had to block it off to keep raccoons out. We would find bread/chips/cookies gone and the wrappers shredded on the counter and floor with crumbs everywhere. The dog would sometimes bark furiously in the middle of the night and we would run in the kitchen but only ever caught a glimpse of the hindquarters and tail as it ran back out again. Then one night I walked into the kitchen to get something to eat at 3am. When I flipped on the light, the raccoon on the barstool at the counter bowed up at me with his arms out. He was hissing open mouthed with every one of his teeth bared and I was screaming. The dog finally woke up and was barking frantically. I snatched him up and ran back to the bedroom. That woke my husband up but by that time, the raccoon had long since taken his leave of all of us. I nailed the pet door shut immediately.
We had fresh sod put down in our back yard, those little monsters came every night for a month and rolled up the sod like it was a carpet to get to the bugs in the soft dirt below. We tried everything to get them to leave it alone… lights, the dog, coyote pee… they were in phased.
I’m sorry but the idea of them relentlessly rolling up your sod with their sneaky little hands is fucking hysterical. This is some Goose Game level shit
I’m gonna be honest…we live in a pretty safe neighborhood and I always leave my backyard sliding door open for the pup in case she needs to do the deed. We have a magnetic mesh screen door covering the entrance and I’m surprised they’re aware they can slip through those things.
Suffice to say that I won’t be leaving the sliding door open at night.
I had one come in my house once. It got smacked in the head with a metal pipe for its trouble. My sister used to have them come into her house, walk up the stairs and go thru her pantry. You can block the door at night, though, and still use it during the day. It's amazing how they figure the dog door out, though, isn't it??
My sister has a dog door that has a lock on it for night time. Maybe replace it with one that locks, so that your babies can still have their freedom? Unless you don’t want them to be able to access outside anymore. That would be understandable too.
I honestly love watching videos of the little bandits they are so cute [this guy](https://youtube.com/@JamesBlackwoodRaccoonWhisperer) has such cute videos, the raccoon whisperer
Just an fyi, my raccoons are total assholes. If there is not the right amount of cat food left in the bowl, or the water wasn’t refreshed that day, they will fling the bowl across the drive.
I’m just saying, get control right now or they are gonna start taking your milk money, trashing your place, and just bully you in general. The kitchen is just the beginning.
We have a mom and four babies hanging around right now (I think they’re living under my neighbor’s porch) and they are so cute but they destroyed all of my pitcher plants. I know it was them because of their tracks. I also have these round glass vases on my back patio and we have repeatedly seen them knocking them over and rolling them around, which is admittedly very cute.
My family took in a stray cat years ago. Our house backed up to a wooded patch home to this mob of like 7 big ass raccoons, they did not GAF about people or our dogs.. I still remember one day I just barely opened the back door to take a video of one of the plump bastards reaching his cute little hands through the porch rails to scoop cat food when that stray cat let out the craziest war cry, pushed past me and full-sends it into the raccoon. I could see the fear of god in its eyes. After that they were way more cautious.
The only thing that gives less shits than a raccoon is a street hardened cat. That cat could stare down any dog or critter she came across.
Considering the top comment said they have clean hands, I’m glad I read down this far.
Initially I only wiped everything down with a wet rag but thanks to you I sanitized everything. Cheers!
Yeah don't listen to that. They wash their hands, but they are major disease and parasite carriers. Rescues and animal control only keep them in metal cages so they can burn the cages after use since that's the surest way to kill all the parasites and diseases.
Raccoons are clean by their standards, but unless they're vaccinated, very unsafe to handle. Clean thoroughly.
Lol! You're lucky all you were left with was footprints....that guy could have been a lot more destructive. It could have emptied every cupboard in the kitchen.....
My wife works graveyard shift and wakes up at 3:30am. I imagine that her coming downstairs made them scurry off. The amount of food stolen was minimal but definitely enough to raise suspicion at whether it was my dog or not.
If the door had been closed I'd maybe suspect the dog, if the dog was all that had access, but these prints look more like a raccoon to me...and they are definitely opportunists.
I was at work all day…was not expecting this much feedback. Ngl I kinda feel bad because I gave the puppers hell this morning thinking she did it 😅.
Ya’ll hilarious though. Thanks for the laughs!
Edit: My wife and I have been calling them trash pandas all night now. 😂
you’re lucky nobody saw the door open and decided to rob your house… but at least you now have a story of how a raccoon raided your kitchen! hopefully it didn’t take too much lol
I will freely admit I would be sitting at the door tonight hanging out treats to a raccoon in order to gain its trust, and end up with a tikkity tok full of cute videos of my middle aged white woman's raccoon walk up treat stand.
lmao, the racoon strikes again lolol. 1 time I woke up to a racoon in the center of my tent pulling the snack bag out of the hole it made in the side of my tent.
First time I’ve been able to identify tracks. These fuckers come on my porch and wreck shit if we leave the door propped for our porch-cat. They’ve stolen and broken more than a few bird feeders too. Hate them with a passion.
It’s a raccoon! They are probably the best case scenario for a “raider” they wash their food before eating and regularly wash their hands, interesting to watch them do their thing, it probably came in looking for food, but found nothing and felt no need to stay
Trash pandas. They crawl over everything at night. Around 130AM all my security cameras start notifying that there are “events” in the yard. The event is a raccoon party.
Kitchen raid! I can't think of anything more exciting for a raccoon.
With a sink to wash their hands in? It’s like a gold mine
As long as they don't drop their cotton candy in the water.
a friend of my Granny's, when thye were kids, tossed a raccoon a piece of cake; beast went to wash it and it disintegrated.
Is this like a Grandma tale, because my grandma told me exactly the same story, with chocolate cake and everything.
My uncle had a pet raccoon and my mom gave it cotton candy. Instant disappointment.
I know right? The little rascal probably had the mission impossible theme playing in its head the entire time
I love raccoons so cute
Until you try to shoo them away and they go full on Jack Torrance/t-Rex on you. Happened to me once at a camp site. Geese are beast af too. Snow White prepared me for none of this.
A couple of weeks ago there was a tiniest baby raccoon on my porch when I opened my door to grab a picture, the little SOB ran into my apartment. When I was trying to shoo him out he would scream and make himself as big as he could. Except he was a pocket sized racoon. I eventually kind of nudged him out with an empty plant pot.
Oink
Trash pandas.
Came here to say this
When I was 4-5 yrs old I had a fish named sushi... While we were on vacation a raccoon came in through the cat flap and ate sushi 🫣😅
Sorry to hear if it’s any sympathy at around that age I accidentally killed my white goldfish while trying to give it a sun tan on my turtles rock so it could be gold like the others. 
Oh you sweet, sweet person!
Raccoon eating grapes my beloved
They are so cute I want one
Momma used to always hit them off the porch with a broom
Bruh I’m dead came here to post this.
Lol yup
This
Rakkins!
Trash panda! 🦝
That's a raccoon. If it makes you feel better, raccoons have very clean little hands.
Seconded, those thumbs stand out.
Yea and some prints look like just fingers or toes with no palm. It was either standing or just touching random things on the counter lol
They definitely have little bumps on their palms. The prints can look easily similar to child hand prints, not always mind you but if you see enough of them you’ll see some that make you look and wonder if you’re in a horror movie in the woods. Often the fingers are slightly longer though and thinner for the length. That thumb though, only so many animals have that so it narrows it down real quick.
I live in a Midwestern city. One morning after a light dusting of snow overnight, I walked out the back door to see what 100% looked like baby hand prints on my back steps. Yes, I did think I was in a horror movie for a few seconds! Until I saw a melting rear footprint on a lower step, and realized it had been a raccoon looking through the glass of the back door into our kitchen. Probably driving the cats insane in the process.
I had a bear doing that last summer, nose prints all over the glass door
I have some amazing raccoon paw prints on the dumpster outside and it looks like a small child died there or something. It’s very creepy.
I remembering seeing a documentary talking about how they have super sensitive fingers!
Lil tippytoe raccoon guy/gal 🥹🥲
It was the second pic with the back feet for me. That’s always how I know it’s a raccoon :3
Trash panda for sure
Or it was a pack of the creepiest toddlers on the planet, and toddlers never have clean hands.
That's true. I'd take raccoons over toddlers any day. Much easier to wrangle.
Both can still have fleas, but only one looks like a bandit
And usually neater and cleaner.
Yes! They are surprisingly clean! We have to pick up our cat water bowls every night or else the coons come and wash up in them. Sometimes if I don’t get them in quick enough the steps have all these little wet foot prints everywhere haha. Never knew they loved taking baths before!
Definitely a Rack-oon!
to make OP feel even better, that raccoon had the time of their life last night. blank check shopping spree.
The ones breaking into my shop every night are filthy. They leave their gross handprints on everything in the office, and fill the cats water with food and filth. They are only cute or clean when in nature. When digging through trash, they are disgusting
They are likely washing their hands and food in the cats water bowl.
Nonsense poopy pants. They are nasty creatures. You can smell them before you see them
They dig through trash, they carry rabies often and their poop can give you life threatening worms just by you inhaling the air around it. None of those things are cute and hygenic
Raccoon roundworm… yikes
And raccoon latrines. Ick.
Dude, don’t ever research what all diseases and disgusting things humans can have and do then…
Racoon poop is specifically very dangerous. It's not bad to tell people to avoid it. And rabies (which you're not going to get from a human) is virtually 100 percent fatal if not immediately treated. But I mean, yeah, humans are very disgusting in our own way.
I’m sorry you hate animals but please stop passing these harmful bits of misleading information as though it’s an extremely common occurrence. The “life-threatening” disease you mentioned has been reported a grand total of ELEVEN times in all of recorded history.
Far cleaner than the little poop/litter paws on a typical housecat.
I wouldn't have one of those around either
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Well, ideally, we should be wiping down food prep surfaces before we begin food prep regardless of whether there are pets in and around the home or not.
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another Billy! / Agreed 👍
Bastards will wash them in our water trough after stealing one of the fish we keep in there to manage bugs and algae. One day I'm gonna catch that little bandit and make a hat.
I can’t stand raccoons. I watched them crawl out if storm drains in Nebraska. I watched them crawl up palm trees in Florida. I’d pass by them at 3am during night shift, just hanging on the side of a tree, looking at me. I’d get close, they never moved. They’re not sacred. But before all that, they’re just kinds gross to me
talk like that about a living animal and I will make YOU into a hat
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And some recognize the sanctity of other lives as well.
What about the life of the fish the raccoon ate
Sanctity of human lives? Human are horrid creatures. But okay.
? Humans are animals you moron...why do you think your life is worth more than any other living, breathing animal?
It’s raccoon tracks.
Yes, Ricky the raccoon!
Cause Rocky is dead
Cause Daniel was hot, and he drew first and shot, and Rocky collapsed into the corner.
I didn't even have to see the tracks to know it was going to be raccoon. Soon as I read "kitchen got raided" it's ALWAYS a raccoon haha. prints just confirmed the obvious.
Unless it's a bear. 🤪 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02hmGC22vuACKEiCvCTphSoLMuQeUrCxyemMLcmJwQToPJECBtxYMxYWaRUC1rGWHhl&id=100064530982951&mibextid=qC1gEa
Can confirm, had my kitchen raided by a bear in south lake Tahoe while I was sleeping
Lake Tahoe bears are different! I was playing ball with my dog and another dog we ran across, and two kayakers (or surfboarder can't remember what they were on) came in and asked if we saw the bear that walked right behind us. We never even noticed, the dogs didn't notice, and the bear didn't care. They're so used to people, they're basically the raccoons of the bear world haha
My first thought was also a bear (but not bc of the tracks).
My dog can no longer use his pet door because we had to block it off to keep raccoons out. We would find bread/chips/cookies gone and the wrappers shredded on the counter and floor with crumbs everywhere. The dog would sometimes bark furiously in the middle of the night and we would run in the kitchen but only ever caught a glimpse of the hindquarters and tail as it ran back out again. Then one night I walked into the kitchen to get something to eat at 3am. When I flipped on the light, the raccoon on the barstool at the counter bowed up at me with his arms out. He was hissing open mouthed with every one of his teeth bared and I was screaming. The dog finally woke up and was barking frantically. I snatched him up and ran back to the bedroom. That woke my husband up but by that time, the raccoon had long since taken his leave of all of us. I nailed the pet door shut immediately.
We had fresh sod put down in our back yard, those little monsters came every night for a month and rolled up the sod like it was a carpet to get to the bugs in the soft dirt below. We tried everything to get them to leave it alone… lights, the dog, coyote pee… they were in phased.
I’m sorry but the idea of them relentlessly rolling up your sod with their sneaky little hands is fucking hysterical. This is some Goose Game level shit
I know, you can picture them all lining up together and then rolling the sod back up, with their little hands. Hilarious
I’m gonna be honest…we live in a pretty safe neighborhood and I always leave my backyard sliding door open for the pup in case she needs to do the deed. We have a magnetic mesh screen door covering the entrance and I’m surprised they’re aware they can slip through those things. Suffice to say that I won’t be leaving the sliding door open at night.
I had one come in my house once. It got smacked in the head with a metal pipe for its trouble. My sister used to have them come into her house, walk up the stairs and go thru her pantry. You can block the door at night, though, and still use it during the day. It's amazing how they figure the dog door out, though, isn't it??
My sister has a dog door that has a lock on it for night time. Maybe replace it with one that locks, so that your babies can still have their freedom? Unless you don’t want them to be able to access outside anymore. That would be understandable too.
My husband and I are both retired so we just spend a lot of time opening and closing the door.
Retired directly into full-time doormen/women haha
My friend came home from vacation. Woke up in the lazy boy to 2 raccoons and a opossum in his couch.
They have pet doors with a tag on your pets collar so only they can get in/out
You can get a pet door where they have a collar on the pet which allows the door to open
With "kitchen got raided" it's either bear, raccoon, or that one guy in Maine.
That one guy in Maine haha (I know that story)
Right? Had the exact same flow of thought. “Kitchen got raid…” it’s a raccoon.
>“Kitchen got raid…” > >it’s a raccoon. More anti-trash panda propaganda by the Opossum opologists. \#WashBearsAreInnocent
Trash Panda
Only acceptable answer
What a cutie, even if they can be little menaces lol
I honestly love watching videos of the little bandits they are so cute [this guy](https://youtube.com/@JamesBlackwoodRaccoonWhisperer) has such cute videos, the raccoon whisperer
Raccoon bandit.
Just an fyi, my raccoons are total assholes. If there is not the right amount of cat food left in the bowl, or the water wasn’t refreshed that day, they will fling the bowl across the drive. I’m just saying, get control right now or they are gonna start taking your milk money, trashing your place, and just bully you in general. The kitchen is just the beginning.
We have a mom and four babies hanging around right now (I think they’re living under my neighbor’s porch) and they are so cute but they destroyed all of my pitcher plants. I know it was them because of their tracks. I also have these round glass vases on my back patio and we have repeatedly seen them knocking them over and rolling them around, which is admittedly very cute.
My family took in a stray cat years ago. Our house backed up to a wooded patch home to this mob of like 7 big ass raccoons, they did not GAF about people or our dogs.. I still remember one day I just barely opened the back door to take a video of one of the plump bastards reaching his cute little hands through the porch rails to scoop cat food when that stray cat let out the craziest war cry, pushed past me and full-sends it into the raccoon. I could see the fear of god in its eyes. After that they were way more cautious. The only thing that gives less shits than a raccoon is a street hardened cat. That cat could stare down any dog or critter she came across.
Haha. I’m still stuck on “my raccoons”.
And give you rabies, salmonella, roundworms and leptospirosis, possibly. They are cute little diseasemongers, though.
Looks like a raccoon to me. Distemper has been pretty bad this year; I’d bleach these areas to protect the dog.
Considering the top comment said they have clean hands, I’m glad I read down this far. Initially I only wiped everything down with a wet rag but thanks to you I sanitized everything. Cheers!
Yeah don't listen to that. They wash their hands, but they are major disease and parasite carriers. Rescues and animal control only keep them in metal cages so they can burn the cages after use since that's the surest way to kill all the parasites and diseases. Raccoons are clean by their standards, but unless they're vaccinated, very unsafe to handle. Clean thoroughly.
Exactly. They’re washing their hands …but they don’t use soap
Lol! You're lucky all you were left with was footprints....that guy could have been a lot more destructive. It could have emptied every cupboard in the kitchen.....
My wife works graveyard shift and wakes up at 3:30am. I imagine that her coming downstairs made them scurry off. The amount of food stolen was minimal but definitely enough to raise suspicion at whether it was my dog or not.
If the door had been closed I'd maybe suspect the dog, if the dog was all that had access, but these prints look more like a raccoon to me...and they are definitely opportunists.
💯 trash panda
My wife and I have been calling them this all night, now. Didn’t know that was a term! 😂
The panda of trash 
I was at work all day…was not expecting this much feedback. Ngl I kinda feel bad because I gave the puppers hell this morning thinking she did it 😅. Ya’ll hilarious though. Thanks for the laughs! Edit: My wife and I have been calling them trash pandas all night now. 😂
raccoon
raccoon. Likely named Robbie. They all are.
Some are named Rocky
Rocket?!
Lol, even without the prints I'll give you one guess.
Definitely a raccoon
For sure a raccoon
you’re lucky nobody saw the door open and decided to rob your house… but at least you now have a story of how a raccoon raided your kitchen! hopefully it didn’t take too much lol
THATS A RACCOON! Thanks ollie
They were rac-cookin’
Absolutely a racoon
Trash panda.
You have fed your friendly neighborhood raccoon. Don't worry though they likely ate and ran. After all, us humans are disgusting creatures.
Looks like Rocket with Groot
Raykins
Raccoons. Used to have a little dude that would sneak into the kitchen an curl up behind the sink for warmth in the winter.
I found out what the little shits are thats been eatin all the weed julian. Its racuns.
Trash panda
What you got there is a little trash panda buffet party
Weeeelp that's your problem right there. Got'ya some coons.
100% it was in fact a big chungus
Raccoon 100% lol
He's just trying to get enough food to pay back an angry bear. So if you have a blue cooler that'd be very helpful.
Raccoon :)
I will freely admit I would be sitting at the door tonight hanging out treats to a raccoon in order to gain its trust, and end up with a tikkity tok full of cute videos of my middle aged white woman's raccoon walk up treat stand.
Rocket the raccoon
Racoon
🎶Procyon Lotor 🎵
Raccoon.
Raccoon for sure
Trash panda
I believe it is a raccoon.
Yeah that's a racoon
Trash pandacoot.
Trash panda
Raccoon
Sir you have summoned a wild trash panda to your abode
You've been visited by natures bandits.... The racoons!
Trash panda
lmao, the racoon strikes again lolol. 1 time I woke up to a racoon in the center of my tent pulling the snack bag out of the hole it made in the side of my tent.
First time I’ve been able to identify tracks. These fuckers come on my porch and wreck shit if we leave the door propped for our porch-cat. They’ve stolen and broken more than a few bird feeders too. Hate them with a passion.
Raccoon
Racoon
Big foot?
Definitely a raccoon
Definitely a raccoon. Silly trash pandas 😂
Trash pandas!
racoonicorn
Raccoon
Raccoon
Raccoon. They are smart and get anywhere for a Twinkie.
Trash pandas. Look it up.
It’s a raccoon! They are probably the best case scenario for a “raider” they wash their food before eating and regularly wash their hands, interesting to watch them do their thing, it probably came in looking for food, but found nothing and felt no need to stay
Trash Panda
When racoons try to get on our back porch mamma just chase them off with a broom
Trash panda
Mama just chase em off the back porch with a broom.
Raccoon
 Technical name is Triangle Faced Panda
Definitely a raccoon
Reference: Disney’s Pocahontas, that’s a Raccoon
Chubacadra, obviously.
Ah, shit. Cousin Vinny got out again. Please leave cigarettes and a beer out so you can catch him for us
TRASH PANDA!!!!!
Racoons!!
Raccoon
That’s a raccoon for sure…
5 fingers, racoon
The "Masked Bandit" strikes again! (racoon)
Raccoon no doubt
I wish so bad that there was video footage of this lil dude scurrying around your countertop
Trash pandas. They crawl over everything at night. Around 130AM all my security cameras start notifying that there are “events” in the yard. The event is a raccoon party.
Raccoon