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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
ok, true story (y'all need to stop me if these are getting old). we hand raised an orphaned racoon when I was a teen. he never really caught on to the fact that he was a raccoon, but did have some very definet 'coon like traits, including the urge to "wash" his food. Dad would have coffee and a donut every morning that Mom would leave on the table. the little guy had an incredible sweet tooth and could scent sugar like mad. he would climb up on the table, break a piece of the donut off and proceed to "wash" it in Dad's coffee. of course it would fall apart, and he would then sit on the table screaming like mad at the monsters in the cup that were stealing HIS donut!
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I've heard similar stories - people give raccoons sugar cubes and watch them "wash" the cubes ... over and over and over .... they never figure it out.