The raccoon is the perfect token animal for 2020. It washes its hands obsessively; always wears a mask; and its name is an anagram of “corona”! (If you don’t mind one leftover “c.”)

Remember the MPR Raccoon from almost exactly two years ago? On July 12, 2018 she began climbing a skyscraper in downtown St. Paul and the internet held its breath for nearly two days, until she reached the top and was humanely captured and released in “an undisclosed location.”

One of the first artists to pay tribute to this brave little raccoon was our niece Megan Tegeder, whose tweet of her raccoon portrait made Buzzfeed, followed by MPR News.

You can have a Megan Tegeder MPR Raccoon tee shirt of your very own by going here. (This blog gets no consid­er­a­tion if you do, darn it.)