So I chatted with ChatGPT about it, and wound up at the end of the conversation with ChatGPT wanting to design a video game controller especially suited for raccoons, so they could play some sort of Tetris-like game, to keep themselves entertained and maybe curb their curiosity-based destructive behavior.
didn’t the russians get pet foxes after only 20 or 30 generations in an experiment? They tried with beavers but couldn’t get them to mate iirc
found it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox
on thinking about it though curious housecats can be annoying a ‘mostly tame’ raccoon would be worse than a drunk toddler