She was watching a baby raccoon, preparing to go for a kill.

The baby raccoon ran for the edge of the woods.

The book is a remembrance of a year in his childhood during which he raised a baby raccoon named "Rascal."

The book begins with the capture of the baby raccoon, and follows his growth to a yearling.

Sassy easily holds up her share of this sort of conversation, as when Chance noisily trees a baby raccoon.

"Even baby raccoons that look very cute may have rabies," she said.

The baby raccoon eventually finds an apple that is safe to eat.

As she watched, the raccoon came into view, and then she saw a baby raccoon, and then another.

A baby raccoon is called a kit.

One friend told me about a woman she knows, in Rockland County, who tamed a baby raccoon by feeding it popcorn and peanut butter.