Some people believe that raccoons wash all their food before eating it. There is some truth to this. Most raccoons do wash their food, and there have been cases where raccoons refused to eat food when they couldn’t find any water nearby!

But on the other hand, raccoons have been known to eat food even when they were some distance from water, though perhaps they weren’t too happy about it. And some raccoons have been observed to eat without ever washing their food.