If you thought raccoon ears were cute, try opossum feet!

They adorable.

Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko (Pom Poko)

Further information regarding the ways of raccoon kind is generously provided in Ghibli's Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko (Pom Poko), which examines the complex nature of intricate underscored raccoon relations.

Sometimes I achieve success when attempting to photograph laidback turtles, for at times they remain somewhat docile and let you shutterbug away.

But at others testosterone abounds and there's no diplomatic impetus, harmonizing interspecial congeniality, them turtles right freakin' pissed!

Having seen such behaviour in different animals I was led to theorize that animal kind, including robust philosophizing humans, has reps no species quite knows how to deal with.

For instance, in Heisei tanuki gassen ponpoko one bellicose raccoon takes on risks which may lead to a cull, his leadership rivals employing other means to stop the development within their homeland.

Said rivals take a more artful approach and utilize superstition as opposed to violence, with remarkably mythological results eventually dismissed as carefree play.

I didn't know that raccoons were renowned indeed vigorous legendary transformers, and if threatened could materially shapeshift regardless of weight equivalencies. 

In an age when the old ways have been forgotten many repudiate appeals to folklore, which references age old artists who once thoroughly concentrated on raccoon kind.

They discovered their transformative initiatives and swiftly celebrated them in poem and song, but fad and trend inevitably obscured their realistic spiritual reckonings.

The people who adhere to the past and even actively witness it at large at times, are subsequently and summarily lampooned for having overlooked contemporary biases.

The raccoons benefit from such developments but their belovéd home is still threatened by urbanization, grand mutating masters arriving from far off islands in a last ditch effort to preserve the wilderness.

It's plain as day that other peeps observe raccoons wide-eyed with wonder, as they go about their intuitive days rambunctiously securing food and shelter.

To those in the know there's indubitably indeed really nothing else quite like them, they remind me of people who want to focus but at the end of the day remain habitually distracted.

Perhaps they never will become domesticated like trusty dogs and impetuous cats.

But they're still close by monitoring the scene.

Sometimes envious, at others highly critical. 🦝

Does the raccoon's climbing ability make him or her slightly haughtier than cats or dogs, and therefore more challenging to domesticate? 🦝

I'll probably never buy any Coffee-Mate, I usually drink my coffee black, but I love their most recent ads, go big, go big with raccoons.

Perhaps artists are more like raccoons than cats or dogs, stopping by to check out the domestic life at times, but still preferring to live in a tree or the backyard.

Raccoon ears.

It'd be cool to make something similar to Robert Fuller's Stoat City, as depicted in Nature's The Mighty Weasel. Possibly for raccoons instead!

I keep seeing this apple tree full of apples and wondering why local raccoons haven't been gorging themselves on it all fall.

After having watched many videos that clearly prove that raccoons generally cannot be domesticated, while noting that they love living in urban environments, I theorized that cats and dogs did not become our faithful companions overnight, or that it likely took hundreds of years for the canine and feline dynamics of our contemporary pet population to matriculate, meaning that it's possible we are in the midst of a centuries long mass domestication of raccoons, who, like cats and dogs, will likely continue to spend much of their time outdoors if globally adopted, perhaps even spending the night in trees from time to time, while dogs and cats ponder their alternative behaviours.

Raccoons see the easy lives cats and dogs are living.

And may be asking themselves, "can we live that way too? Is it possible for us to live amongst these ingenious humans while preserving our freedoms as they tenderly care for us? Can we live in luxury like these cats and dogs? Would such accommodations include the possibility of bananas?"

I hear there's a new raccoon-proof waste disposal unit in Toronto.

I bet it's only a matter of time until a really smart raccoon, or gaze of raccoons, figures out how to open it, and devour what awaits inside.

After that, they'll show the other raccoons what they've learned.

We'll see.