Burnsville Animal Control is sending out a warning to the public about the recent increase in oddly behaving racoons. On Oct. 6, Burnsville Police received information about these reports from animal ...

Most of us see raccoons as troublemakers that raid bins and disappear before sunrise, so the idea of keeping one at home feels strange. Even so, their behavior in cities is shifting. They’re figuring ...

Raccoons have been sharing our neighborhoods for long enough that most people have settled into a vague truce with them. You see one on the fence, it stares at you for a moment, you stare back, and ...

These days, the internet’s favorite animals are trash-foraging critters like rats, possums, and especially raccoons. Raccoons (Procyon lotor) are little bandits that steal our hearts, again and again, ...

The city of Burnsville issued a warning Tuesday about an increase in raccoons that are “behaving oddly,” apparently the result of disease. Some raccoons were seen displaying “abnormal raccoon behavior ...