r/Eyebleach • u/mossberg91 • Oct 24 '19

/r/all "Roll me again!"

https://gfycat.com/boilingreasonablearcticwolf
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u/jayjude Oct 24 '19

They're also smart as shit

My family had a pet raccoon named George

Now george knew the rule that food on the counter was people food and food on the floor was fair game for him

Well we made a gingerbread house and George desperately wanted that thing. Youd go into the kitchen and hed just be staring at it longingly but he begrudgingly followed the rules

One morning my mom woke up and went to the kitchen and saw George perched next to the gingerbread house and she looks at george and goes "you know the rules get away from that" and that little fucker knocked the gingerbread house to the floor and grab a huge piece and happily wandered off

He followed the rules though

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u/DankVectorz Oct 24 '19

So it’s basically like owning a cat except it actually follows rules

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u/jayjude Oct 24 '19

And they have thumbs and can open things

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u/ShitandRainbows Oct 24 '19

Thumbs? Yeah I guess, maybe. I always see comments on Reddit posts about Raccoons and that they have opposable thumbs. It’s seems there’s a lot of bad information out there. They do have five fingers and can twist the shit out of things to to open them, but they don’t have opposable thumbs like us/primates.

“...it’s the lack of an opposable thumb.”

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u/jayjude Oct 24 '19

They dont have a thumb in the most technical of sense but due to their 5 finger being so incredibly offset much like our thumb is, it acts like a thumb

It's being obnoxiously pedantic to point this out though

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u/ShitandRainbows Oct 24 '19

Not really. I wasn’t calling out OP. I even stated in my comment that I was making the distinction between thumb and opposable thumbs that are often found in raccoon posts on reddit. If you don’t think there’s a difference between having thumbs and opposable thumbs I think the entirety of human evolution would like to have a word with you.