Raccoons...innocent right?

Just a bit of a background I love animals with their tongues out. How can you not!

Just because they have the black balaclava doesn't mean they are naughty or up to something. Oh wait in this case it definitely does. These guys radiate a cheeky curious energy. No mater what they are doing, how innocent they try to look, they always give that impression of being up to something. I get told often by people that know me well that I have naughty look on my face, this usually means someone thinks I am up to something. Raccoons have this all the time.

We met this guy while we were walking round the lake at Stanley Park in Vancouver, he was following a group of tourists at a distance. I don't think they knew he was there, he followed them for a short while then got bored and started to forage. The lady at the information center said these ones were pretty tame, and that there was a group of woman who would go for walks every evening and feed them. So this one was just trying his luck during the day. We had some apple with us but he wasn't really interested in that. We had some bread with us as well. That he loved ...who wouldn't prefer carbs when you usually eat plants and small animals.In the wild and around suburban areas it isn't usually a good idea to feed them or leave them with access to food such as rubbish because they come to rely on human influence for food and can become a pest. The ones in Stanley Park are almost a tourist attraction and can let you get close to them but they are still wild animals and need to be given the respect that they can be dangerous. The one below was at a resort in Costa Rica, came up into the area by the pool at night and went straight to the rubbish bins, rummaged through for quite a while before being scared off by a staff member. 

Okay so after the issues last week with The Lion King im happy to say raccoons are properly representd by disney in Pocahontas with Meeko always hungry and curious with the correct marking. :P. So I don't have to draw a picture to prove a point this week but I will draw some tomorrow and put them up for you so check back for them.
 

Okay so it turns out raccoons are easy to draw you can use literally any shape and just draw a dark eye mask and a stripey tail, for example

Triangle

Square

Circle

No but seriously its not hard here are some better pictures and the picture from my map for continuity .