a couple years ago my grampa shot a blonde racoon. not albino either. it had blonde fur with brown rings. really pretty animal. it was the second one he had shot in 40 years of coon hunting. he got a full body mount of it. anyone else see coon in this coloration?

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I saw one a few years back hanging in a fur shed where I used to sell my pelts. The buyer said it wasn't worth much because it it was off color but I thought it would have made a great mount and a conversation piece.

Can you get a pic of it? I would love to see one.

I mounted one for a guy once.very pretty color.like you said not albino;just blond color.there are all kinds of things in nature.

Hi, back in the 1960s my dad and I were very much into coom hunting, we had some of the first Plotts in our area of West Virginia.
We killed three blond coon one fall and I believe three more over the years.
They were a true blond color and the rings on the tails and highlights on the rest of the fur were kind of pinkish orande in color.
the eyes were an amber color and the nose and bottoms of the feet were the color of a chocklate Labs nose.
At the time they were an oddity but fairly common in our area.
I have not heard of one being killed here in recent years.
At one time I did a lot of trapping and caught two blond Fox, the old timers here called them Sampson fox.
They were about the same color phase as the coon,the big difference was the fur,it looked more like shearling lambs wool than fox fur.
I am pretty sure they were Red Fox the tail tip and other features were the same,probably some genetic deficiency.
A fellow trapper friend of mine also caught a blond mink.

Last fall a friend living in Oakland Md.
found a blond squirrel ran over on the road,It appeared to be a strain of grey squirrel, certainly not a ligh colored fox squirrel.

I guess the blond color phase in animals is more common than we realize.

There is a zoo here in Jersey (Space Farms) that has or used to have a blonde racoon. Very cool looking!

I killed one that was a blondish red color once about 10 years ago. It was one of the biggest coons I have ever shot.

yep...my neighbor shot one and had a full body mount of it done. I'll try to get a pic of it and post it sometime today