Police investigate reports of 'zombie' raccoons
Police are investigating reports of "zombie-like" raccoons in northeast Ohio .
WKBN-TV reports Youngstown police have received more than a dozen calls in the past three weeks about raccoons acting strangely in the daytime.
Photographer Robert Coggeshall says he was playing with his dogs outside his home last week when one such raccoon approached them. Coggeshall says the animal would stand on its hind legs, show its teeth and fall over backward.
The raccoon Coggeshall saw and 14 others police responded to were euthanized.
The state Department of Natural Resources says the animals were likely suffering from distemper, not rabies. The viral disease causes coughing, tremors and seizures and leads raccoons to lose their fear of humans.
Authorities are asking residents to report raccoons behaving unusually to their local police station.
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Ha!
I almost seeded this story as well badfish.
Am I the only one that, upon reading about a racoon that stood on it's hind legs and bared its teeth at the human looking on, that didn't say to themselves, "Oh Great. The boys are back in town!"
Great song!
If I see this guy in my backyard...he can have anything he wants
I don't have a dog any more, but Penny chased deer more than she chased squirrels. A squirrel could practically jump on her back and she couldn't care less, but let a deer come into the yard and she was all over it
I don't fret over the raccoons, it's the squirrels that will get you.
Trout will testify to that.
And damn, I'm leaving in about an hour to go to .....you guessed it....NE Ohio.