A Washington state woman called for help after she was surrounded by more than one hundred raccoons at her Poulsbo home.
But, to be very honest… she kinda’ asked for it.
Woman called deputies Thursday because about 100 raccoons were outside her home “demanding food.”
The woman told deputies she started feeding raccoons around her house about 35 years ago without any problems. She said about six weeks ago, the raccoon population “exploded.” Now, the animals surround her home day and night, saying, “Somehow the word got out in raccoon land and they all showed up to her house expecting a meal.”
Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the Kitsap County Sheriff, said, “They had never seen that many raccoons in one place. Nobody ever remembers being surrounded by a swarm of raccoons. This was a first.”
McCarthy also spoke on the solution to this trash panda invasion and how to prevent it from happening, “It’s pretty simple, don’t feed wild animals. When wild animals have a reliable food source, they’re going to keep coming back to it. And that’s what these raccoons did until the number of raccoons expecting a meal got out of hand.”
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