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this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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So domesticating dogs was for protection and hunting and they like our scraps, cats were for the rats, what the racoon doing?
Raccoons will sort through your trash so you don't have to compost, saving you precious seconds of your life.
Welp, I'm in. I'll play god to a sentient creature for that alone
Domestication isn't necessarily an objectively symbiotic affair. Pets are already a much more commensal thing tha they were.
I might argue Raccoons may just be parasitising on us by overflooding our dopamine receptors with cuteness. I think animals all over the world are slowly doing it.
And I'm not complaining.
But if we get our dopamine receptors juiced from the deal, surely that makes them symbiotes
domesticating humans so that we allow them access to our magnificent garbage.