After the popular “Rascal Raccoon” cartoon series in the late 1970s, Japanese families rushed out to buy raccoons as pets. They discovered that the animals are rascally, as in the series, but much harder to care for than expected, so many abandoned their pets. Those pets bred and the number of raccoons has exploded, creating a scourge of raccoons in Tokyo. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler explain.