A rascal in the house

BBC ran a story suggesting that raccoons were, in trying to use human territory and human trash, at least partly domesticating themselves. I assume that this "self-domestication" wouldn't work quite the same way for prey animals like rats, but they report that urban raccoons have shorter snouts than wild ones, similar to changes in domesticated cats and dogs -- and foxes.

I read Rascal too (no, I haven't been to the museum), and I can imagine some of the issues that might arise with a housepet with curiosity and hands, but trying to breed a tame raccoon sounds like an interesting project. For somebody younger than me.

I wonder what besides tameness you might want to try to breed for.

For that matter, imagine breeding monkeys for tameness. And rather importantly, ability to be housebroken. How long before your indoor pet figured out how to feel his way to opening those cheap combination locks. I assume childproof latches would be a peice of cake.

You may say that I'm a dreamer... but maybe just bats.