The woman, who has not been named, near Poulsbo, Washington, called the county sheriff, who sent deputies
Feeding wild raccoons around her home had seemed harmless enough, if odd, for one woman in the north-west for 35 years – until about 100 of them surrounded her home and demanded food.
“Somehow, the word got out in raccoon land and they all showed up to her house expecting a meal,” Kevin McCarty, a spokesperson for the Kitsap county sheriff, told local NBC station 9News.
He sent deputies to help the woman.
“They were shocked. They had never seen that many raccoons in one place. Nobody ever remembers being surrounded by a swarm of raccoons. This was a first,” he told the TV station.
The sheriff’s office even posted about it on social media with some extraordinary footage, showing the raccoons as if they had decided to hold a convention in a back yard.
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