Making Wild Animals Into Pets

[Dino Velvet]

I get up every morning to feed the strays in my back yard. I feed not only cats but raccoons, skunks, squirrels, and birds. The raccoons were a worry at first but they got fattened up and lazy so their pray drive has diminished. The most assertive animal down there is an orange feral cat who is like Genghis Khan with rats.

Anybody try to make a wild animal into a pet? I see the Lenscrafter commercial where the fairly blind lady mistakes a raccoon for her kitty and welcomes the guy into her home. I've heard a lot of people making pets out of racoons. I even heard of a lady who had 18 skunks. She had a glandular medical procedure that de-stinks them. They looked like a bunch of funny looking black and white cats running around the house. Fairly social too.

Buddy the Pet Raccoon - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVF7qijP-sc)

Pet Skunks : Do Skunks Make Good Pets? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ucgp-GzcE8)

[Odelay]

I'm thinking this is Dino's subtle message to the ladies that he is available to be picked up as a stray, and be domesticated. Based on his subtitle "I like being dirty", you might want to hose him down first before bringing him into the house.

[spankrod]

"Hose him down", hey?