Very Nice Dave. Unusual to find one in the daylight. Crawdads are one of their staple foods along with other invertebrates and plants. Every common name for them incorporates their characteristic dousing behavior plus BEAR or in some languages RAT.
From Captain John Smith's list of Powhatan words AROUGHCUN "one who rubs, scrubs and scratches with its hands".
Even its scientific name PROCYON LOTOR translates as "before-the-dog-washer". Procycon is the brightest star in the constellation Canis minor as Sirius, the dog star, is the brightest star in Canis Major.
Raccoons are not in the bear family URSIDAE they are in the PROCYONIDAE family. Giant Pandas once thought to be in the raccoon family are now, through DNA testing, bears while the lesser or red pandas are raccoons