Not so for one Washington state woman, who called 911 after her home was swarmed by scores of hungry raccoons. This was a first.”No wild raccoons in Washington have recently been diagnosed with rabies — a disease that kills almost every human it infects, according to the Washington State Department of Health. “At this point, it’s been determined that the raccoons haven’t committed any crimes,” McCarty told the affiliate, before adding a more serious moral coda. “Don’t feed wild animals. When wild animals have a reliable food source, they’re going to keep coming back to it.

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