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A friend of mine gave me a pet raccoon named Buddy at a rodeo.  I had a pickup with a camper and boot to crawl through. We put Buddy in a cage in the camper. My girlfriend and I started home and I felt a hand on my shoulder. Buddy had escaped and was climbing into the front of the pickup. At the time I didn’t know him very well and he climbed on the dash and started running back and forth. We stopped the truck and jumped out and the truck was stopped in the middle of the road with a raccoon in it. Traffic was backing up and finally I got back in and pulled it off the road. It was scary at the time but Buddy turned out to be a wonderful pet and we had many years of fun with him.