A situation of wild animals invading a house.
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Raccoons are very, very cute.

However, Raccoons - of any age - can carry rabies, lepto, distemper, raccoon parvovirolenterist, infectious canine hepatitis, pseudorabies, and round worms that are host to a particularly deadly raccoon disease that can be transmitted to both humans and members of the canine family. All of the above diseases are a major danger to dogs. So you don't want to allow your pets near wild raccoons nor their urine and/or droppings. Several of the above diseases can be extremely harmful (even deadly) to humans, too. Sadly, even newborn Raccoons can be infected with any/or all of the above illnesses. They may/or may not be symptomatic. No matter how cute they may be, no wild Raccoon can be considered totally safe. Almost all carry round worm. Despite being cute and quite intelligent, wild Raccoons can pose a serious health risk to both humans and pets.
This is something that few people (including myself in the past) stop to consider. Most people only see the "cute" side of the story.

This very young baby was orphaned. His mother was trapped coming out of our attic by professional Critter Control. Unfortunately, if given the slightest opportunity, Raccoons will expand their "wild habitat" to also include occupied human dwellings. From the human perspective(Raccoon's being destructive critters that can carry a myriad of diseases), this is unacceptable. Wild raccoons can not be allowed to live in an attic or any other part of a human's home.

Sadly, when the professional Critter Control removed the mother from the attic, he carelessly left 4 raccoon babies behind to fend for themselves. As a result, the babies made their way down from the attic into our Solar Room. We had to round up the baby raccoons ourselves & then turn them over to the professionals. The babies were so cute & their being motherless was so sad. But they also had to go. Our Solar Room (and everything in it) then had to be completely disinfected with Clorox. Luckily, the baby raccoons only got about 1/4 of the way across the room. Still, they can carry such horrible diseases... And I wasn't going to take any chances. Everything had to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.