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I went backpacking with some friends, but one night a raccoon raided one of our kids backpack. all it took was some beef sticks, peanut butter cups, and some protien bars. Now there is a ripped raccoon going around the forest beating up the other animals for their lunch money.
Let me guess his name was....Rocket. 😁😁😂😂😆😆🤣🤣
Dr. Nigel Memes *Juice*
Dr. Nigel Memes pics or it didn’t happen
+Nicole Berry It's a raccoon raiding a back pack full of food. what do you mean it didn't happen, that happens to everyone.
Dude you just made my day
Raccoons are just at another level. You cant even get angry at them for stealing your food because they are just too cute ♥️
Oh cute she is !! Smart trash panda !
Don't like competition huh Lime Lives?
They are cute and snuggly until they steal your eggs and kill your hens. I am hoping my mountain climbing clips keep them out of my coop. They are smart and agile, no doubt.
@@sarahaugustine4185 We have the same problems with foxes. They are so smart and nimble, they can break in and kill all your chickens in one night. It's sad but I still love foxes. I just feel bad for the poor hens.
Actually Humans are the pest,
LOVE it! We had a pet raccoon when I was a kid. When we went on vacation, we left it with my best friend whose mom was my mom's best friend and was absolutely crazy!! By the time we got home, Karyl had taught our pet to sit up at the table -- on a chair -- and, using a spoon, eat ice cream from a bowl!!! They are SO smart!!!
super smart
that’s why u can’t let them
@@gracie99999 ya they be eating all of your food, they don’t care if it’s close, they will figure out the way to open it.
karyl is also amazing in this case lmao
Hahahah
It's all fun and games till raccoons start robbing us.
That's racist
@@androidmk5987 *speciesist
they already have the eyemasks
Oh lord the mini sly cooper's
@@godlikemachine645 *racoonist*
I was always scared of Raccoons due to other people advise, but last summer a mother raccoon came to me with 4 beautiful babies. Since then 5 of them became my best friends.Sometimes they come behind the window just to check up on me. Every night at 10 PM we have gathering. A glass of wine for me and big bowl of cat food and veggies for them. We spend an hour together.I have learned so much about them. Their palm of their hand feels like pure silk, the most softest one. One of them has to take my hand in her/ his hand while eating. I will not change the feeling with billions of dollars.
The mama raccoons know exactly how to get the goods from humans with their cute babies, lol. So many do this.
0:36 I wouldn't open any doors for such a treat...
Lmao what i was thinking..it looks frozen to
maybe there was a stick of butter in the final bowl
Matter of taste. I love brocolli, be it cooked or raw.
I like broccoli, but cooked.
Looks like it has mould on it
The fact that their playing the theme from the Great Escape just makes this so much more awesome
"Remember Sly, you can stand in front of doors and press the circle button to open them"
Had one in high school, he managed to open up a sliding glass door and a screen door and he was gone never to be seen again. Very smart and determined creatures!
Did you attend a high school for raccoons
@@SP-ny1fkYeah, to get into the Racoon Federation? 😅🤣😂🤣
I remember one time camping with my girlfriend a Racoon came up to our camping table while we were in the tent and stole half a pan of pot brownies... There was one stoned raccoon in those woods that night
It’s raccooneggs
it was me, i was that raccoon
one stoned raccoon, two stoned humans
Why brownies is asociated with weed?
Hyoroemon Meto pot brownies. There was pot in the brownies.
Imagine if the roles were reversed, and raccoons were the smartest animal on the planet, and humans weren't. And they caught a wild human, and filmed it doing their taxes, with narration of "can he do it". LOL
Edit: Wow, has it really been 4 years?
The way things are going evolution may eventually make that true.
Stay tuned.
Well, the reptilians in goverment are doing something like that...
@@antoniomontero4989 yeah, but the dinosaurs went extinct.
George B. Wolffsohn No, humans will always be the top species. We can adapt to literally anything with technology.
I want this as a comic or something.
Raccoons can be one of the more challenging animals to catch because of how smart they are. The company i work for use live traps to safely catch and relocate raccoons, but if a raccoon has dealt with one of those traps before they will avoid it. Often times start flipping traps or reaching in through the bars to get the food.
Smart Rabbit!
Thor. XD
Raccoon
thanks rabbit
That's not a rabbit, that's a fox.
@@ThePhantomofdelight it's a wolf
Can he fly a spaceship?
Arjun Singh with ease
as demonstrated in GotG😁
Can he tame a tree?
@@kurama670 I AM GROOT
Great, now tame the tree of life and send 10 tails packing!
Human: Go through the puzzle and get a treat
Raccoon: Broccoli? All this for Broccoli!
We had a male raccoon when. I was in my early 20's. My sister brought it home. It was a very tiny baby . As it grew it went from one " animal proof" cage to another, unlocking each as he figured it out. Finally, I built a large cage 6' x 6' x 6 ' and it was locked with a combination lock. But whenever I came to feed him he watched me studiously hoping to figure it out. That was the only one that stopped him.
🤣 🤣
Well, if it was clever, it would have broken the lock, thats what i would do.
idk if I believe that😭😭😭
@@jpeg.600x2 I guarantee that my story is true. In the final cage which was secured with a combination lock the raccoon would come over to where I was unlocking the door to feed him in order to watch what I was doing.
Did he understand what a combination lock was it how it worked ? I sincerely doubt it. But he was conscious of the fact that I was opening the door by my actions. Raccoons are seriously intelligent creatures. Their hands are almost as dexterous as human hands. They are as soft as a baby's behind. But, cute as they are, they can be seriously vicious.
@@jpeg.600x2 years later, living in California, a group of three raccoons decided to play in my children's play structure and swing. While one sat on the swing another propelled it by swinging the rope that hung from the swing. New while another was climbing up and down the climber. All this at 3am in my back yard.
"This final one she can't actually see."
Yes, her vision of the latch must be completely blocked by that piece of totally clear Perspex. Especially at 1:54 where she's looking right at it. I think the racoon may be smarter than the narrator here.
Im pretty sure she meant it cant be seen *while* attempting to unlock it
I'm pretty sure if you click my 1:54 timestamp you'll see the racoon looking right at the latch as it attempts to unlatch it.
@@jimlaw8199 fair enough.
No she can't see the actual lock. The part where the latch is in the hole thingy
I'm pretty sure the racoon cannot see through the opaque latch to actually observe how it may work, so from the perspective of the racoon she can see a near horizontal beam of indistinguishable colour, given near color blindness. So, I'm pretty sure that the theory stands: the racoon had to rely predominantly on prehensile sensory input to initiate the unlocking of the door.
What was astonishing to me is she eats broccoli! None of the multiple ones I know would eat that, or carrots...Mine also have a sense of humor. They pick stuff up off the outside table, and carefully place it insight, but just out of reach on the roof. One time, they grabbed my headlamp and took it up the tree. I am sure my neighbors think I'm crazy - talking to the tree - 'you little butt heads, give that back right now!!' As soon as I wasn't looking, they flung it down at me.
They are scary smart.
I had one that literally taught itself how to use the toilet and flush. Alright. Any animal that housetrains itself is super intelligent in my book.
Could you post a video?
I'd really like to see it.
@@Lone-Lee Not really. It was like 18 years ago and none of us had smart phones at the time. Plus its been dead for about 14. Also wtf.
@@psychobeam99, oh! It's alright I was just curious.
@@Lone-Lee All good.
I made a wooden box with a door that locked with a lever that had to be lifted to keep raccoons out of the cat food. Silly me. Came out the next day and the door was open and cat food gone. Now I see how much I underestimated them.
Jeff looks up cat feeder tables. You need to have a table higher than 4 ft with metal flashing on the sides, and have the table away from anything the raccoon can use to climb and jump onto the table
When I look into the eyes of a racoon...there is someone home !!!
Nobody says the same thing when looking into yours.
@@jessewahwah from the top rope!!!
. . . . He's looking for your wallet for some midnight snacks.
The Great Escape - Title Music in the backround. This is Gold
Plot twist, Raccoons are actually robbers and naturally skilled to break into things to steal food.
About a decade ago, I was taking out the trash, and my community started putting clamp locks on the trash cans. That night I saw a family or heard, not sure what to call it but about 3 raccoons standing around my trash. The biggest one was right in front and had it’s paw on its face while the other two were standing on two leaning on each side of the trash can. The big one made a high pitch noise and the two on the side shook my bin until it had fallen forward all three approached the trash and started chewing on the clamp. Then the biggest one put its paw under the latch and popped it straight open letting the weight of the trash and gravity do some work. Talk about team work I was so amazed at the thought process and execution of the task I threw out some chicken breast scraps from my place. Unfortunately they picked up the scraps and ran away before I could snag a good picture. And unfortunately left me with quite a bit of trash to pick up but boy oh boy was that interesting to see.
Great story!
I went from watching Guardian of the Galaxy with Rocket Racoon, suddenly here with real racoon 😂 feel odd...
I remember a raccoon raided my apple tree once... the mama took a bunch and her and her kiddos sped through the trees... dang raccoons are smart
Honey Badger : "Finally, a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!"
"The rabbit is clearly the smartest among you"
-Thor Odinson, Infinity War(2018)
the cutest thiefs ever
She has skills i can respect.
Never give these guys guns they join groups and save galaxies. 😂
At least the raccoon at the end was saying, thank you, thank you! 😉
My home has been blessed with a injured but tenacious "Wawuk" and he has managed to seize control of my heart. Unable to forage due to his injured front left leg-I've managed to fatten him up and he is once again thriving. A Wawuk is what my mothers tribe calls Racoons. Its as if she sent him to me to remind me that even though he can be a destructive little pest-he is one of Gods creatures that deserves our compassion. My little Wawuk has managed to help me grieve through a difficult time in my life by reminding me that life is precious.
If you happened to see this.... when you say front left leg.. did you mean his arm? Or maybe it was supposed to be back leg? I don't often hear an arm or hand called a front leg
Especially by someone using the word tenacious, unless the word was incorrectly used..
“This final one she can’t actually see”
*lock is put on see through door
I got a seizure reading your comment
We want the humans to believe we cant see it.
:38 "A small treat of broccoli"
Raccoon: "I've been bamboozled!"
I absolutely Love these wonderful creatures. . I raised a baby from a kitten and she potty trained in 5 minutes to a kitty litter box.
Cat steals a food
Human: angry
Racoon steals a food
Human: cute and interesting
I absolutely love Raccoons.. My baby opened his lock also.. I miss him terribly but happy knowing he is living his best life near the Suwannee River were he was released...
I'm so proud of you, Rascal. Great job. Come home.
Looks like Rascal has been doing a lot of those food challenges!
I think it’s time for the treadmill challenge! 🦝
Must has a higher IQ than must of us
@stellvia hoenheim No do grammar, no well nope.
okay?
I think you meant "a higher IQ that most of the U.S".
@@TheStgmp44 envy only hurts you..
friedrich nietzsche's moustache Feel free to explain your comment, as you don't know me. So you haven't a clue of what my educational background is or what I do for a living.
Definitely higher than yours!
Excellent use of The Great Escape music.
This is literally amazing.
Perfect choice of music - The Great Escape!
Great choice of background music. I want that played at my retirement party (if I get one). The other folks approaching retirement would "get it". The younger folks, not so much. Rascal looks as though she's been through a bunch of these (well fed) and done well. I like the way the second to last gate teaches her the lock mechanism for the last gate.
Or perhaps your funeral....
Broccoli? Um, I thought you said there was a treat? I'm surprised she didn't rip anyone's face off after discovering her broccoli 'treat'
Lol
Omg, right??? When they mentioned a "treat," I was expecting a fat piece of chicken. Poor raccoon has to go through all of that work for a lousy piece of broccoli!! LMAO
Broccoli is good stuff. Too bad you can't tell.
Maybe the raccoon loves broccoli :)
Some people take it very personally when you insult broccoli. It's a joke!! LOL
My uncle had chickens that kept disappearing. He watched a raccoon come during the night and open the chicken coop, carry the chicken out, put it down, close the door, close the latch on the coop, pick up the chicken, and walk away on his hind legs with the chicken under his arm.
Indeed they are truly interesting creatures I really love them
The next time I lock my home and lose the keys I will call a racoon.
Rodents like Beavers can irrigate streams to create a dam as well as calculate the appropriate angles to gnaw a tree to fall in the right place. I also have a couple squirrel neighbors who have figured out how to dismantle my roof shingles near an air vent to make a nest.
I'M SO PROUD OF YOU RASCAL ❤️
And Rascal snickers as she walks away, thinking "Yeah, yeah. Next time give me a real challenge, human."
By default every racoon is named Rascal. Generic title. So cute.
Love the Great Escape theme song!!!
all animals have problem solving skills. if you just sit and observe them, you will realize even lizards in your backyard have problem solving skills.
So why raccoons not common pet?
Is it because they escape artist?
There are many people who have tamed raccoons as pets but they are very destructive and difficult to have as pets. They will destroy your house while you're gone.
Dogs were first domesticated around 14,000 years ago. Since then, through selective breeding, we've made each generation more gentle, docile and suited to life with humans. Raccoons are still wild animals, and while they're not always vicious, they haven't had nearly enough generations being domesticated to breed out their violent and destructive behavior. They're not safe for your home, your children, or your other pets. Wild raccoons also frequently carry rabies, as well as roundworms and various other diseases which are transferable through contact with the infected raccoon's feces. Unless we start up a raccoon domestication project like they're doing with foxes in Russia, raccoons aren't likely to become popular as pets.
Because they do not sleep 99% of the time, but take the house apart at night.
It's because they are disease ridden varmints who tear stuff up.
Did you not hear the part where the narrator compares raccoons to monkeys? And monkeys make terrible pets. The more intelligent an animal is, the more mental stimulation it needs not to become neurotic, destructive, and aggressive.
More brains than many people, and adorable
They are so adorable.
This is awesome, please do some more challenges.
Next thing you know, they’ll be unlocking your doors with it’s nails
She's so cute I wanna hug her 😚💓
I love their little grubby hands lol 🦝 my spirit animal.
Rascal is quite the clever lady Musical background sounded like it was from THE GREAT ESCAPE and it fit Rsacal's dexterity
This is why I love raccoons more than humans
You need to get out more and exercise your social skills. Be a force for good around you if you don't like your own kind. Are you just going to sit there loving raccoons while the world burns around you? If you don't like people, make friends with them and teach them how to be.
Like numb 69 xD
@@traininggrounds9450 That sounds good. Only problem for me is the vast majority are hostile to change.
@@silverrain530 I know that Yahshua came and spoke the truth and was killed for it. He also said, "They will put you out of the synagogues and even think by killing you they are offering service to God. But they do these things because they have neither known me or my father. But I say these things so that when they happen, you may remember that I told them to you."
So I am able to do this work and suffer at the hands of people over and over again and be treated like I'm an imposter and illegitimate and even my own mother believes that I'm not a servant of God. But I know in whom I have believed and so I endure everything for the sake of the cross of Christ who came and spoke the truth to the people and was killed for it.
These people don't want to know the truth! They want to have it both ways and still think of themselves as having acceptance. But wisdom is justified by all her children.
The Great Escape theme makes it more fun.
The ‘GREAT ESCAPE’ theme music - appropriate enough! 😁
Leave it to the BBC to have the money to license the most appropriate music for this segment...
Give him trick trousers and send him out to the prison camp garden to scuttle some dirt. :P
Thank God somebody has seen The Great Escape!
Now im imagining a raccoon escaping its little animal sanctuary on a German motorcycle lol
I still make reference to hammering to the tune of Christmas carols.
Swiper no swiping
Swiper's a fox.
*DORARARARARARARARARARA*
Swiper was a fox.
How could you do this.
How could you forget.
Dora is disappointed.
I am disappointed.
Everyone is disappointed.
Jk XD
@@jkp4163 josuke?
She's a sweetheart and oh so intelligent too!!!
I love the thumbnail for this video, the raccoon has a genuinely confused/thoughtful expression lol
Superb, they are smart.🐱
Wow...now that's truly impressive!
Racoons are pretty smart!🙋💗😻
00:20 Ugh noooo! The death stare of cuteness overload!
This is incredible!
Imagine if raccoons had thumbs, they’d take over the world
i think they do have thumbs
At the very least, they'd take over the world's garbage.
Amazing! 💙
This fixed my whole day.
What a fantastic little creature
So this raccoon is the one that's been sneaking into my freaking garbage 😂
Naaah ! He's the one who's raiding your fridge.
I had local raccoons watch me lock my under stair storage, they then opened it at will. It took me a year of changes to get a system they could not open. I really enjoy and admire the critters.
BBC, I love that you're using the theme song from "The Great Escape"
Raccoon solving the passcode to the new electrical lock you bought for your garbage can like:
Ah yes, the British and their idea of a "treat" I bet the Racoon was so sad to find it was just Broccoli.
*Raccoons love Broccoli though. Of course an american wouldn't see it as a treat because naturally you are scared of vegetables
@@boneyween oh yes, you Brits have such a superior diet 😅 I eat plenty of veggies but Broccoli is no treat on its own.
I have a pet raccoon. Lovely animals.
but live so little
rondrigo alex they live it up while they're here, if given the chance!!
@@mikemax69 20 years old. More than a dogs actually, a dog can barely recognize you after leaving for a few minutes😔👌👌 doggos are cute but not long living and not really intelligent 😋
omg! thats one smart rascal!
love the music, immediately remembers me of maggie simpson :P
The Great Escape... Simpson's used the soundtrack
Great escape music! 👍🏻🙂
reminds me
"Raccoons will be a thing of the past, just like snow!" - Owl Gore
Ravens will take their place easily.
Can't wait for that day when they are extinct.
+Kurt S
That's pretty extreme and psycho... did your house get broken into by a raccoon?
+Kurt S Don't get your hopes up. It's thought that they are one of two animals that will outlive us and take our place as the dominant race (on land,) the other being corvids like crows, blue jay, rooks and ravens.
What a stupid comment.
Rascal is so cute. And smart!
HOW CUTE!!!!!!!!😍😍😍They are like tiny bears!
Yeah, at least she doesn't get torn apart and put back together by an evil scientist!
Roccos is a smart raccoon
That is amazing and so cute!
Rascal is just beautiful. Look at those wise eyes!
Yess! Raccoons are my absolute favorite animal ^.^
Do other species realize we make videos bout how amazed we are that they are not dumb as rocks and got inteligece ?
"Using only her sense of touch...through the perfectly clear door..."
Bravo! How intelligent and cute!
Rocket Raccoon! 🔥😭😭😭😭😭
We've bred a special breed of trash panda here in Toronto. You should see our "raccoon-proof" waste bins
Thanks for the heads up. Show one successful raccoon on CZcams, and they all know. I saw one who took three toboggans off the top, turned the lock, and had the bag out in seconds in broad daylight. They are good.
They used to be bad about getting in the cans where I used to live. A heavy concrete block on the lid kept them out, though you could see the claw marks where new ones still tried.
The raccoons in my neighborhood must be dumb because they've never gotten into our trash cans. It just has a lid with no lock. Meanwhile, for the past 4 years they desperately try to get on my raccoon-proof cat feeder table but fail 😂
Smart little cuties. Haha! 😊❤
Why do I find this adorable