A woman came home for Christmas and discovered her parents had 'adopted' a wild raccoon, giving him cooked breakfast and dog toys

• Stacy Jo Rost came home on Christmas to find her parents had adopted a wild raccoon.
• The raccoon, dubbed Little RIck after Rost's stepfather Rick, is treated to daily cooked breakfasts.

Imagine coming home for the holidays to find your parents have adopted a wild raccoon and are treating it like furry, small-pawed royalty.

That's exactly what happened to Seattle Sports radio host Stacy Jo Rost, who chronicled her stepfather Rick's feral new friend, suitably named Little Rick, on X over Christmas. Tens of thousands of people followed along.

"My parents had to put their dog down two years ago and it's been really hard on them," Rost wrote in an X post that garnered 269,000 likes. "Unfortunately my stepdad, Rick, has found the worst way to cope: feeding a one-year old raccoon and letting him live on their porch."

The raccoon "has a messed up back leg and they saw him when he was a little raccoon baby and didn't think he'd make it," she continued. "So now they're attached."

The raccoon, nicknamed Rickoon, started appearing on her parents' porch scavenging for food months ago. Stepdad Rick and Rost's mother began making the injured animal breakfast, feeding him an enviable selection of sardines, berries, and hardboiled eggs. They provided him with a bowl of water so "he can wash his little people-hands" post-scarfing.

"I mean they make him breakfast every morning. My mom claims she's against this because he's a wild animal and dirty but she's lowkey in cahoots. This woman is lying to my face," Rost wrote.

Then things got weirder. According to Rost, her parents purchased the feral animal a selection of toys and a bed. Little Rick has dog toys.

"Need I remind you: Little Rick is not a dog. He's a raccoon. He will bite. They're in denial. He's using you for eggs before he kills you in your sleep," she wrote.

Her family insisted that Little Rick was harmless, but Jost wasn't having it:

Little Rick now follows Rick around as he's tinkering on the porch, which Rost finds deeply unsettling.

Will Rost ever make peace with Little Rick? It's hard to say. Insider has reached out to Rost for comment.

But she may have no choice but to welcome him in to the family. As one X user noted, "That's your little brother now."