This is was my first walk at the park where I saw for the first time a raccoon so close. It was sleeping but it woke up as I got close. I heard better not to piss them off or they will bite and carry some kinda decease like rabies, lol.
This is what I read from Google Search:
"Raccoons—along with foxes (red and gray), skunks, and bats—are considered a primary carrier of the rabies virus in the US. While any warm-blooded animal can carry rabies, these are the ones we call “rabies vector species".
