Regina Barber

And the one that fell through that ceiling in the Virginia liquor store, broke all those bottles, then was found passed out drunk next to a toilet.

He's okay.

He sobered up and was released.

Not to mention how much they've invaded pop culture.

They've been in cartoons.

In video games.

There's even a baseball team named after them.

And they've collected a lot of nicknames over the years.

Night Prowler, Mass Marauder, Garbage Goblin.

Trash Panda is my favorite one.

It's just so cute.

This is Raffaella Lesch.

She's a zoologist and assistant professor of biology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

And recently, Raffaella and her team published a study that is causing excitement because the findings may point towards raccoons beginning to domesticate themselves.

When I think of domestication, my mind immediately goes to cats and dogs, mostly cats because I have four of them.

And how these cute little angels became our pets is a long story.

As in, it happened millennia ago.

So today on the show, are urban raccoons becoming domesticated?

Can we be sure?

And does this mean that you might have a pet raccoon in your lifetime?