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Posted: 2023-05-08T11:55:15Z | Updated: 2023-05-08T11:55:15Z

A Texas school seems to have a furmidable problem.

McCallum High School in Austin has been facing a raccoon issue, with the furry omnivores appearing across the campus and one tumbling down through a ceiling during a class, NBC affiliate KXAN reported.

It was scared, it was running around and everything, journalism student Morgan Eye told the station of the raccoon that fell from overhead and landed near a student. What if it bit her? What if it had rabies?

Raccoons are not a new issue for the school, another student said.

There are articles you can find from the 90s, from the early 2000s and even the 2010s talking about this, said Noah Braun, a sophomore, who reported in the schools paper last month that three raccoons were captured within an hour.

Braun said a dead raccoon was recently discovered in the schools walls.

It was rotting, Braun said. Its corpse was rotting and it was spreading its smell everywhere

Student Max Davis shared videos and pictures of the raccoons.

There was a raccoon that ran out of a bathroom and when it saw people it ran the other way, Davis said.

The Austin Independent School District addressed the concerns in a statement to KXAN.

We understand that having raccoons on school grounds can be worrying for parents, and we take this matter seriously, the district said.

School district employees and contractors were setting humane traps and performing exclusion work, the district added.