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It was mentioned as a memoir about the author's childhood and his pet raccoon, Rascal. This book was adapted into an anime series in Japan, which led to an influx of pet raccoons and the species becoming invasive.
in 1963 an American writer named Sterling North released a memoir about his childhood called Rascal a memoir of a better era
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Episode: Mini-Stories: Volume 7
It was mentioned as a memoir about the author's childhood and his pet raccoon, Rascal. This book was adapted into an anime series in Japan, which led to an influx of pet raccoons and the species becoming invasive.
in 1963 an American writer named Sterling North released a memoir about his childhood called Rascal a memoir of a better era
And this took place in rural Wisconsin and he came from kind of like a frontiersman type family and he spent a lot like a lot of time in the wilderness But the book was mostly about him and his best friend, which was a spunky baby raccoon named Rascal
So in 1977 when this anime debuts in Japan It's a sensation
So kids loved this show and Rascal so cute that it makes raccoons look like really fun companions So Japanese families started importing baby raccoons from North America to Japan to keep as pets in their homes
So if you read the end of Sterling North's autobiography he comes to the conclusion that raccoons are Not good pets because they're wild animals and they become aggressive and as they get older they will destroy your house for sure
