Be sure to research local regulation on trapping and relocating as there are often protections against this practice. Raccoons are often pictured as cute, masked critters that snatch scraps from a ...

Every once in a while, you may see a raccoon being kept as a pet. While this isn’t legal everywhere, some areas do allow raccoons to be kept as pets. However, these animals aren’t domesticated and ...

Raccoons might look adorable from afar, but when they show up in your yard night after night, whatever cute factor they had quickly fades. These masked intruders are surprisingly smart and capable ...

The very moment I opened the back door so Dolly could do her end-of-day potty chore before bedtime, she shot across the patio then the backyard right to the back fence and barking with unusual vigor.

A 'plague' of beer-swigging raccoons trashing people's homes and eating their pets is causing 'catastrophe' in Germany. Homeowners are being hit with repair bills of up to €10,000 (£8,600) after ...

Maria Azzurra Volpe is a Newsweek Life & Trends reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is reporting on everyday life topics and trending stories. She has covered Pet Care and Wildlife stories ...

DEAR JOAN: Can you advise on how to get rid of skunks and raccoons, short of trapping and releasing them elsewhere? These pesky critters hang around my yard. Mr. Skunk eats the cat food, if we leave ...

Breeder's Choice corn, the only kind I grow anymore, is ripening fast. Lest raccoons savage it, the way they did several years ago, a 6-foot welded wire fence is already in place. The fence went up ...