I have certainly been honored to be friends with many raccoons over the years. I have especially fond memories of Nell. Every year she would introduce her babies to us and one year in particular she had 7 of them following her around. I called them the 'seven dwarfs'.

Nell was especially fond of cooling off in her large tub of water. She would sit there every evening and just relax. I love the way her pudgy back side would hang over the edge!

She would come to the back door, she knew how to  open it to let us know that she was hungry. There have been other raccoon friends but none of them quite like our Nell.