They were native. It was still illegal. Originally what happened is a pair of squirrels lost their parents and literally wouldn’t stop trying to crawl all over us whenever we went outside. So we planned on keeping them safe for a little bit. My mom got attached. Then they got out once and came back so we just left the door open. Eventually they got bored of that “hotel” and just stopped coming around altogether.
Ha. True! I do have one revenge-seeker living under my roof!
We tried to keep squirrels as pets for more than 2 years. Couldn’t hold them ever. Eventually we just opened the door to the pen and it was a squirrel hotel for years. Watched lots of little babies come out of that thing.
There was a video being shared by someone who studies raccoons.
The tl;dr was they are too smart and tend to hold grudges to become domestic.
Still, they would be cool pets.
Just use the link to the Mastodon post. That site is junk.
I’m generally a fan of all the human-made independent blogs and sites, from the elaborate neocities sites (which really are an artform) to the basic black-text-on-white-bg bearblogs.
Content is important, too. Too many meta posts (e.g. “My blog workflow”) can be a pain, but tinkerers gotta ticker!
I found the channel. It is all about raccoons.
This is the video that I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxgUOQRFjh8
(And this one is also à propos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E181sIZhhfA)