WATCH: Helpful raccoon helps man wash his phone

If given the chance, this raccoon will watch everything in sight - as this one man found out when he tried to give his phone a bath.

He quickly retrieves it but as soon as his back is turned, the crafty raccoon, Gosha, helpfully finds something else to wash.

Amazingly (or suspiciously), his phone survives

Gosha is a pet raccoon that lives with his owners in Russia. You can see more of his exploits here.

Raccoons are noted for ’washing’ items such as food - their scientific name procyon loto means ’washing bear’. Scientists are still unsure as to why raccoons do this. One suggestion was that they like to clean their food but this has been discounted. Other theories include that it improves the texture or, most likely, that it is a call back to the engrained action of foraging aquatic food at shores.

HT: breakingnews.ie