Last spring, officers from the unit rescued a raccoon from hunting dogs. They fostered him in the unit, nicknaming him Hook, and the unit’s animal specialists even found him a mate – a female raccoon called Alice.
The common raccoon is the most widespread type of raccoon in Eurasia. The animal sleeps during the day and is awake all through the night. It hibernates in winter and its life expectancy is just short of 20 years.
The animal however is quite robust and can aggressively defend itself against predators.
In North America raccoons are often kept as pets. Zoologists however doubt its trainability, describing the animal as curious, aggressive and cunning.