Losing a pet is one of the worst feelings in the world, and when it happens, we all look for different ways of coping. Some of us are unable to look at animals at all for a while. Some of us drown ourselves in awwdorable animal pictures and sob. Some of us adopt a different animal, or maybe an animal chooses to adopt us. And some of us, apparently, become best friends with cute baby raccoons.
Yep, you read that right. The father in this viral twitter thread, two years after losing and mourning his pet dog, came across an injured, hungry little baby raccoon, and instead of screaming, running away and hoping to not get his finger bitten off like his daughter would have done, this father gave the raccoon… an egg. And so was the start of this beautiful and absolutely precious friendship.
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Okay, you may have read the title of this listicle and thought that there is no chance a raccoon - even a baby raccoon - could be cute, but be honest with yourselves. Go ahead. Look at this baby and tell us that it's not adorable. We dare you. It's impossible, he's precious.
We do love the support here, not going to lie. The husband is doing weird shenanigans with a baby raccoon and the wife is complaining but bringing the baby food? Classic, iconic, more of this kind of love, please.
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