A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in anymore so give it to me straight are they as they seem ?
Edit : To reduce confusion and to not have to answer to duplicate comments NO I do not hate animals . I think they are all neat and they are what they are and I don’t hold them up to humans standard but I’m not an animal person like cat people or dog people either . I hope this clears it up.
Nature is way way more vicious than most people think or believe. Rape, infanticide, necrophilia, cannibalism, etc. Are not entirely uncommon out in nature. It’s a vicious race for survival and procreation and anything goes. Raccoons are the same.
And, in particular, the animals that tend to give effective resistance to the humans’ program of “hey I’m gonna trap / shoot / poison you or destroy your home because you’re inconveniencing me”, tend to get demonized as these crazy murder beasts when they’d probably be much happier living in the woods and doing their thing.
Human farmer eating chickens: Look, he went back to the land, so charming
Raccoon eating farmer’s chickens: HE IS THE DEVIL
Animals do not exist in a moral universe. Humans do. And yet, somehow, when a conflict between them escalates, the animals are always the ones being psychopaths.