"I thought I fell in the water this morning, but I just wanted to swim."
Even raccoons have to beat the heat sometimes.
And this week, with temperatures in Toronto well above her 30s, the raccoon did just that.
Instead of digging in the trash as usual, this raccoon went for a swim in the backyard pool.
The swoop looked fun and was captured on video,and posted on TikTok.
The poster said he had never seen a raccoon in his pool.
"This raccoon is literally swimming on purpose," she says in the video. "It came into our pool to swim.
'I thought it fell this morning, but I just wanted to swim.' The location is not published.
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