LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 13 days agoCuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next petwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square4linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkCuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next petwww.bbc.comLadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to Good News Everyone@piefed.socialEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square4linkfedilinkfile-text
The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoI find some the headlines, like this one, about this study recently a bit weird, because it’s not like we haven’t kept raccoons as pets before. Hell, one of our presidents had a pet raccoon!
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoThey are crap pets, they constantly try to escape.
minus-squarewhyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 days agoand cats, or we are their pets?
I find some the headlines, like this one, about this study recently a bit weird, because it’s not like we haven’t kept raccoons as pets before. Hell, one of our presidents had a pet raccoon!
They are crap pets, they constantly try to escape.
So do huskies 🤷♂️
and cats, or we are their pets?