Raccoons are undeniably adorable, with their bandit-like masks and those clever little hands that seem almost human. It’s no ...

With the possible exception of a certain overly aggressive red squirrel who tried to bite off a couple of my fingers at the elbow, the meanest animal I ever worked with was a small, but surprisingly ...

Raccoons’ ability to manipulate their environment with their handlike paws is one reason humans have tended to anthropomorphize them. Almost two-thirds of the raccoon’s somatic sensory cortex is ...

A friend in Denver was being driven to distraction by the destruction in her garden. Pots were overturned and scattered, transplants dug up and tossed aside with alarming regularity. She put the ...

Q: I enjoyed the letter about living with raccoons. We have been enjoying our masked visitors for 20 years, since our son went off to college. I feed them dog kibble and occasionally poultry bones.

A group of chimney technicians paused their work on a home in York, Maine, when they came across some adorable baby raccoons. Kyle Ware, who works with A Merrie Sweepe Chimney Service, he recorded the ...

Westchester Health Department is looking for the person who left five baby raccoons on its doorstep Raccoons might carry rabies and health officials fear caretaker was exposed The masked balls of fur ...

MONTEREY — Just before Thanksgiving, Sharon Foster was gathering things out of her car when she heard a bark. She had set her 4-pound Maltipoo, Cissy, on the ground just moments before and now saw ...