“They were trashing my grapevine, beating my cat. It was like a frat party. They were insane,” said Wendy Hooker, a New York resident who called a raccoon trapper after seeing the animals “wilding” in her yard. The New York Times chronicled the burgeoning raccoon problem in New York City in great depth and profundity.


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