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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

Sunderland search for fugitive raccoon enters seventh week

A raccoon  – not Meeko
Raccoons are said to be very intelligent animals – ‘equivalent to a two- or three-year-old child’. Photograph: Peter Foley/EPA

They’re seen by some as cuddly and intelligent, by others as always-hungry pests. Either way, raccoons are not meant to be loose in Sunderland.

A search for a rogue raccoon in the city has entered its seventh week with volunteers hopeful that the lure of breeding will entice the animal to return home.

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