More Baldy the Raccoon!!!

[Mannyboythegreat]

Its Hideous!!!!!

[sangonaomi]

I find her quite cute :P

[otaku72ypestis]

Wow . For years , my family has been taking care of a colony of raccoons that lives under our storage ... 'barn' . Several generations have passed , and I have seen raccoons with ears like a scottish-fold , but I have never seen anything of this nature . You sure it was a disease that caused her to be hairless and not a genetic mutation ? If it was a disease , I'd expect some patches of fur to still remain ...

[poopybooyah]

what happen to her fur?

[ElGatoLoco698]

I got a bald cat but this thing is really weird. Those raccoon hands freak me out.

[morganwalker]

I watched a video of my neighbor's hairless ass. Pretty similar. 

[nonameroo]

DUUUUUDE! I jus saw this on animal planet!!!!

[MagicGonza91]

oh shit! KILL IT WITH FIYAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!

[gishikin]

MANGE!!!

[gorrilatape]

arent they illegal to keep as pets

[sugarmommaless]

I love this! Thanks for posting! I hope she moves over here to Cabbagetown! Viva Baldy!!

[ashlanas]

is that just a bad case of mange??

[lilbluependragon]

@ashlanas

Doubtful, it's skin doesn't even look irritated. 

[ashlanas]

@lilbluependragon hmmm...not sure. I am sending this to the Director of the wildlife center where I work at. I will let you know what she says. Poor Coony!!!

[lilbluependragon]

@ashlanas

I saw this clip on television, are you aware that it's being used on Animal Planet? Haha.

[ashlanas]

@lilbluependragon I actually googled it and did not realize all the media it has generated!!! I am in the US and I understand this is in Canada. I did read something about wildlfie officials trying to catch and help it, which I hope they were able to. Could be something that is easily curable...idk. Do you know if they were able to catch her?? I am a big coony lover :)

[lilbluependragon]

@ashlanas

I didn't hear anything about them trying to capture her. She was on Animal Planet last night on a show called 'Strange, Freaky, and Weird' or something like that. Don't remember the name of the show off hand but they were showing hairless and albino animals for the episode.

[ashlanas]

@lilbluependragon Geesh, I was flipping through the channels last night and watched it for like 2 mins. on animal planet. They were talking about a nest of 2 storks, or something. I flipped back to my show that was on a commercial break. Guess I will have an eye out for it again.

[poopybooyah]

is baldy raccoon a he or she?

[poopybooyah]

so cute, but funny and scary

[poopybooyah]

whoa! oh man! what happen to that raccoon?

[rachi157]

wat is the hairless on tho?????????

[austn12345]

wow

[Ikickhardcoreass]

this is how retarded minds arre formed. people see hairless creatures and presume its a monster. like that one in panama its a dam sloth

[MaruPadilla]

this moment, RIGHT NOW there is 2 live raccons in my house laying on my couch ,they got in at night. ITS SCARY

[dw1313ify]

Baldy died on Oct. 15, 2009 after being run over by a street car. I witnessed the evidence on King St. W. just east of Beatty Ave. I had met the racoon on many occasion in the backyard of our apt. bldg. on King St. W. Nice meeting you Baldy.

[Dracena13]

Are those froot loops its eating?

[dw1313ify]

Baldy died on Oct. 15 after being run over by a streetcar on King St. W. just east of Beatty Ave.

[Wolfsheim]

It's dog food. Fruit loops are not brown or brck red and mustard yellow.

[playon22]

"whoa! I'm naked" XD

thanks for sharing this, it's awesome.

[natobaden]

they love grapes and hard boiled eggs, ty for posting , :}

[DopeJedi]

This is a great example of the so called "Montauk Monster".

[Gimmer3]

Poor girl I hope you live in the south she would freeze up here in NY!

[alehax27]

ehhh, people here call them cute but I had to kill one a few years back because it had a attacked my dog. I had to take my dog to the vet but he didn't get rabies.

[jessi330]

Still cute. Dogs are cute even though they attack. I hear koala bears are vicious but damn they are adorable.

[kipandkatieshow]

just because it might have the potential to harm us doesnt mean we should! everything has a right to live. she must be freezing in winter but obviously shes doing well if she's lived this long. and she hasnt hurt anyone has she! =)

[69AlArmA]

Poor thing must freeze in the winter....maybe you can adopt her?

[Chickengirl005]

she is like a giant rat...but smarter and prolly with less disease. not too cute though...I guess she is doing okay in the wild if she has been alive this long...

[schadenfreude5]

less disease? raccoons are the #1 carriers of rabies in america.

[Anticept]

What's your source?

[paintingtasters]

cool looking raccoon..

people should stay away from them but, otherwise, just leave the animals alone..

[Agaettis]

Aww! Poor thing must get cold in the winter! She's so cute!!!

[Thedragonsisters]

Cool! I saw Baldy in the paper and decided to see it on Youtube. Also, for you crazy ppl who want to kill it, you can't just kill something because you may "get sick." Or it's ugly, vermin or other reasons. Everything deserves to live! Humans are just as bad as any creature on the planet so you're all ones to talk!

[SaturnAndItsRings]

@Thedragonsisters and I guess you exclude your self from the "humans are just as any creature" part

[Thedragonsisters]

@SaturnAndItsRings Of course not. I'm a human and I'm producing too much waste for this world to handle. I'm trying to change that so that's why I join eco groups.

[Yellow130Ace]

@Thedragonsisters I agree with all of those except for the "everything deserves to live" and the "vermin" part, if there's a raccoon in my house I don't want there (these people clearly like the thing so they can keep it as long as it isn't rabid) but I would get rid of a raccoon in my house. Also to the everything deserves to live... lice and bacterial diseases are living things, but if you had them you'd kill them, but I do agree about not killing it just because it's ugly.

[Genoz60]

DAMN NATURE. YOU SCARY!

[matelotgeek]

for fucks sake, kill that thing !

[mugenb16]

how does it survive the winter i wonder

[jobbers7]

I have lived near this neighborhood and know the inner city raccoons personally, and they are a nasty bunch as they must be to survive in our shite world, but it's not them. They do NOT have rabies and never attacked anyone. Just the garbage.

This one is an oddity for sure and not nasty as it's being looked after.

Shoot it in the head. Right. I hate 'us' sometimes.

[sphilter]

@MifuneThibaud

Or they could just add roundworm medication to the food and do the whole community a favour.

[MifuneThibaud]

If that was a viable solution, animal control would have already done this-- even if roundworm medication is administered, it will only clear it temporarily, until the raccoon is exposed again. They say each raccoon can be carrying millions of eggs, with millions passed when they defecate. The eggs can survive in the ground for years, so next time the raccoon eats off of contaminated ground, it will get them again. Something like 80% of raccoons have these. Very nasty.

[matelotgeek]

KILL IT NOW !!!!

[nazlee]

psycopath..

[eds3377]

creepy...shoot it

[MifuneThibaud]

You need to tell your landlord to stop feeding those raccoons. Urban raccoons are an unsanitary health risk to anyone living there.

The majority of raccoons carry a roundworm called Baylisascaris procyonis, which is spread through its feces which is probably littering that property...if a human becomes infested with it (breathing or ingesting a fecal particle/egg), it is known to travel through the circ system, infest eyes and brain, eating them, blinding or killing the host.

GET RID OF THEM.

[Savaaha]

The transfer from raccoon to human can and does happen. I saw a show On TV about a baby who got them. The poor kid is going to have problems the rest of his life due to the worms getting in his brain. If they can be treated for the worm, thats all the better for them. Killing should be a last option.

[ionavalanche]

i love baldy

[estherlifescitext]

Thanks for the vid!

[estherlifescitext]

Leaving food out for raccoons and stray cats sounds pretty retarded.

[mariakrizan]

If leaving food out for stray cats sounds RETARDED,then how would u call the people who turned them into stray animals genius??

[MicAymeric]

First time I see that.

Winter must be dreadful for her.

[dewitp]

Pretty cool, and better fed dog food than ripping into garbage. Found this video on the related Toronto Star article

[jobbers7]

It's so cute. It doesn't know it's a freak and that is just the thing that will save it. human kindness. Keep feeding her if you can. Make her a sweater (!) lol

[thedollardonkey]

Human Kindness.

Till the thing bites your child and gives it rabies.

Shoot it in the skull, it's a pest and needs to die.

[TheSecondShift]

They were here first. Why do you think it's eating dog food? Because it doesn't have enough of it's environment left to support itself and all the other raccoons and other animals around.

[thedollardonkey]

Good, it's vermin and deserves to die.

All of you people who think they're just cute and cuddly animals, have obviously never had an up-close and personal experience with one.

[zatousagi]

what makes an animal vermin?

that it fights when its cornered?

that it digs scavenges food from people?

that its population is too high?

then people are probably the most dangerous vermin.

[Meanroachman360]

When it becomes a general nuisance.

and yeah, we're pretty much vermin to every other form of life on the Earth.

[djsaiyan]

You are vermin and deserve to die.

Raccoons have just as much of a right to be here as we do. And yes, I have had an up close and personal experience with one.

What happened, did one eat the part of your brain that controls ignorance?

[JRTerrier14]

I think they're cute. I sure as hell don't think they're cuddly.

But, just because they're "vermin" does not mean they deserve to die.

I hunt raccoon and other various vermin (fox, possum, groundhog) with my terriers. So yes, I've had "personal experiences" with them.

[nazlee]

Would you say the same for an HIV-infected person? Since they have the POTENTIAL to harm us, lets just shoot them in the head. Give me a break.

[petedako]

Right! --making her into a sweater is better than just shooting her,dollardonkey --except it wouldn't be a very warm sweater.

[jobbers7]

I said MAKE HER A SWEATER... anyway, that was ages ago. Just like to keep out of the dollardonkey brigade.

[Dvdlpt]

lol

[evthurobred]

It need a thong then it can go to the club.

[mungo181]

I love Baldy.

[angryboiy]

That bitch ass thing doesnt scrurry around anything. it sits its bald ass down a eats. If I, wait i wont i live on an island.

[ZeusOwnsYou]

id kill them all

[nolove0000]

I like how the other two are too scared to come any closer to it.

[ttrop]

kinda looks like a mutated rat

[YuiTeub49]

what happened to that raccoon....?

[boslee123]

poor thing must get cold

[Yochi914]

people like me love animals but it's so weird when you see them without their fur, you kind of get this gross feeling in a way.

[atlantiscats]

OMG! Is that a BALD raccoon? WTH~ we have naked cats.... from Russia (rare breed) like the Sphynx... but a bald raccoon? How weird is that!?  Wonder if it was nature or he got into a fire or some disease? It doesn't look like mange.... weridness. Thanks for sharing.