This raccoon wants to remind you of a very important and topical lesson Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on ...

The cutest pumpkin to come out of fall is not one that kids will be carving and/or smashing. It's actually this adorable raccoon who thinks it is a dog!

Just like siblings, our pets don't always get along. Reginald is a pet raccoon who lives with his family and a female cat named Rosie, his sibling. Their dad explains in this TikTok caption he ...

You probably don’t hear the word “raccoon” and immediately think “awwwww,” but trust us, these two raccoon brothers are really cute. The raccoon named Willie decides to get into a ...

Pictures of a cute pet raccoon dog called Tanu went viral on Twitter last week. Meanwhile, its wild relatives have been “going viral” in a more destructive way among Europe’s wildlife.

Take raccoons, for example. It is illegal in virtually every state to keep wild-born raccoons as pets. Though adorable as kits, they are constitutionally ill-suited as pets.

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. The tanuki, a Japanese species sometimes called a “raccoon dog,” is perhaps best known in ...

It looks exactly like a raccoon mashed up with a dog. It’s pretty dang cute. Which is good, because the poor raccoon dog has had some bad PR of late, and a generally rough time when it comes to ...

Excluding Rocky, the gun-toting hero of the old Beatles song, Bandit may have been the biggest name in the raccoon world. Tipping the scales at 72 pounds, three times normal size, Bandit made the ...