an ex of mine did wildlife rescue and said the raccoons would fuckin slit a throat for an oreo. One morning the staff came in and discovered the raccoons had managed to open all the cages and let each other out, and were just lying all over in a stupor, stuffed with Oreos stolen during the night
I had one wild raccoon,I called her Lucy.she loved Raspberry danishes from Publix..she'd come when I called her nightly. now she brings her babies to eat on our back deck.
I briefly worked in a redneck bar in Louisiana that had a tree growing through the middle of it and policy was that we had to put the Irish Cream in the cooler overnight because raccoons would climb down the tree and drink it all.
Since we are deprived of pictures of this blessed event, here's the legendary possum what broke into a bakery in Australia, and was found in the morning in a similar condition.
Neighbor used to have enormous old avocado trees, and the raccoons would stuff themselves to the point that all they could do was lie under the trees with distended bellies.
And there were still enough avocados left over for most of the rest of the neighborhood.
Curious - does this mean that raccoons do not share the dog characteristic of being poisoned by chocolate, or does this mean that the type of chocolate in oreos is not the bad kind of chocolate?
(or does this mean the wildlife rescue org staff ate vanilla oreos?)
Awesome, I will use this knowledge when baiting my raccoon trap (live-catch, I relocate them because in addition to loving oreos, they love eating my chickens, often without killing them first.)
We've been annoyed that raccoons have been coming to our porch to eat the feral cats' food. Then a skunk started coming for late night snacks. We can shoo the raccoons even though they can be mildly resistent to leaving, but the skunk? Nope.
Oh good. Now I know how to bait the live capture traps so I can get the pestilential nuisances out of my garden and removed to a wild area far far away. Oreos.
once after racoons ate my cinnamon swirl bread they took off with our light sticks and played - sugar high powered - to have lightsaber style fighting in the bushes for the next half hour.
racoons are amazing
100% checks out. My SIL had a raccoon break into her cat door and she discovered it reaching into her Oreos at the same time as she was watching a movie in the dark.
I mean, when I’m in an edible or two, I’D slit someone’s throat for an Oreo.
I’d even beat someone up for a Hydrox. I feel like I’m in “Requiem for a Dream,” but it’s junk food.
Family at Peach Park. Got nice basket full. Left in car w window cracked 2-3”. Went to lunch…
Raccoons got in, ate all the peaches, the gum & peppermint Lifesavers in the console, pooped in the seats, then skedadaddled