HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (KDVR) — Sightings of sick and diseased raccoons are on the rise in Douglas County, specifically in the Highlands Ranch area. Most people fear the animals have contracted rabies ...

For more than 35 years, a woman in Washington would leave some food in her yard for about a dozen resident raccoons. The key word in that sentence is “dozen.” Six weeks ago, the number of raccoons ...

VALENCIA, Pa. (KDKA) — People in Butler County say they're concerned after they've been encountering a number of sick raccoons, and in one instance, the animal had to be put down. Sick and dying ...

And just like that, the woman’s yard became a sanctuary to Rocky and his homies. In what can only be described as a real-life 2024 reboot of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 horror classic The Birds, a Poulsbo ...

In 2016, Sarah Holmes Bookbinder and her husband, Paul Bookbinder, got a phone call from a friend who had found two orphaned baby raccoons. Could the Bookbinders take them? It wasn’t an unusual ...

On Twitter the other day, I ran across a story about a Philadelphia woman who caught a raccoon lounging in her hammock. I once had a similar encounter with a mischievous band of raccoons at my ...

People often mistake raccoons' clever behavior and expressive faces for signs of friendliness. Videos of them rummaging through drawers or getting hand-fed snacks make it easy to forget they’re wild ...

File photo of a raccoon. Wildlife officials advise people not to feed raccoons or other wild animals. Dan Gold via Unsplash A woman has been feeding raccoons for the past 35 years in Washington, ...