I’m not sure what is more perplexing:  Jules Rivera believing it is possible that a raccoon can somehow track down or follow somebody driving away in a truck and locate their home; or making Rusty, growing up in a forest filled with raccoons and other wild animals, believe in this tomfoolery. This is not “Lassie Come Home” or “Homeward Bound.”

Well, perhaps I have it all wrong. Maybe Rivera knows this is not realistic, but is deliberately making Rusty seem like some “naïve city kid in the country” in order to make a certain point. But then, why does Rivera state in panel 1 that this is, in fact, “Rocky”? If Rivera was in on the gag, she would have written something like “Rusty reunites with what he believes to be Rocky the Raccoon.”