'Zombie' raccoons are terrifying Ohio residents in broad daylight with odd behavior
“Zombie-like” raccoons have made for a spooky sight in one Ohio city.
Authorities in Youngstown “have responded to over a dozen” calls in recent weeks about the mammals behaving oddly in the daytime,
WKBN-TV reported Tuesday.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/0...avior.html
I live in southern Ohio and had to kill a raccoon a couple of years ago that was acting the same way. It was like 3:00 p.m. and my dogs were barking like crazy. Right outside the fence a raccoon was acting very weird. Almost like it was drunk and it was lunging at my dogs. I live in a very rural area and have a friend that works for one of the local parks. I had seen this behavior before and he told me that when you see a raccoon in the middle of the day, something is normally wrong with it and when they "act drunk", that is a sure sign they have a serious disease that can be easily transmitted to dogs called, distemper. I quickly got my dogs inside and humanely disposed of the animal with one shot to the head. I then buried the body, so no scavengers could have the disease passed on to them.
yeah, raccoons in the daytime are no bueno.. shoot to kill.
They freak me out. I've seen raccoons dumpster dive like a pro. It's crazy how they get around obstacles. Drunk racoon's? Forget about it.