pet raccoons behavior

Question
i have a 2 year old raccoon as a pet.we bottle fed him since he was a month old.he grew up with my golden retriever whose around 7 years old.the coon has had all his shots.they play and play.just the last couple of days now the coon keeps bothering the dog and the dog isn't interested in what ever the coon is trying to do.the coon just turned 2 years old now since 4 of 09.the coon is trying to get between the dogs rear legs,the dogs now growling at him.one time i had to pull my dog off him,i thought he was gonna kill him.so i returned him to his cage.the coons ok with the other dogs and cat we have,nothing like that is going on with them.just playing.just the golden,the coon is really trying to get to his underneath and the golden hates it.its feb 26 09.ya think this is something to do with mating?coons a male dog is male.this just started happening a few days ago.the cage is out side with other coons coming up to eat so he is around these coons too.but mine is caged

Answer
Things are going to get worse too. This raccoon is now at the full age of breeding. He is going to get vicious with even those that he loves.

I speak from experience. I raised a raccoon with the sole goal of releasing him at the proper age. Two years old is that age. They need to be released when they reach breeding age. My raccoon Halsey, started to attack the dogs, and worse, my boyfriend that had helped me raise him. He bit him horribly on the back of the leg one night and that was it.

I called fish and game and they drove me and my little guy (I too, had him from 6 weeks old and bottle fed him etc) who now weighed 50 bs and we released Halsey on a game preserve where he went on to make lots of babies and lived to be however old they live in the wild.

But, he was wild, and that was important. So your job now is to think about his welfare and not him as a pet. What is the best thing for him? If there are plenty of raccoons around then he will do fine. Does he know how to hunt? Mine did. I taught him.

So this is his chance to live the life he was born to live. It's your choice but he will not get nicer- only meaner as he grows older. He wants out and he wants to breed. You cannot provide that for him so he will get frustrated and a frustrated raccoon is a very dangerous one.

I hope you have a permit for him. If he bites you or anyone else and you do not have one, the local fish and game can confiscate him, fine you up to $20,000. and even jail you! Plus they will put him to sleep immediately, no passing go, and send his brain in for a rabies check.

Just some information you should know. Even with a permit they can do that if he bites you or someone else.

If you do decide to release him, please contact a wildlife rehabber and have them help you get him ready for the wild life.
So you need to have a family chat and think things over.
Good luck to you and let me know what you decide.