After finding a baby raccoon by its dead mother, a Washington family saved the 6-week-old orphan, eyes not yet opened, and raised it as one of the family. Now, seven years later, the Greers have sued ...

On March 7, 1859, Northwest Boundary Survey naturalist C. B. R. Kennerly shot a young female raccoon he observed “fishing on the border of a small fresh water lake” on northwest San Juan ...

A raccoon that encountered a family’s dogs after wandering into a yard in south Gastonia on Wednesday tested positive for rabies, police said Saturday. The two dogs killed the raccoon outside ...

Video of the interspecies family shows the raccoons cuddling with their new mom Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...