I was out digging yesterday

I was digging out the ground yesterday minding my own business when I was interrupted by a raccoon that seemed to have ideas she wanted to share with me. What those ideas she had in mine, she had difficulty communicating because it was a raccoon and I was a human, but it appeared to me that she wanted to fight. Part of its tail was missing which led me to believe she had previous encounters. However, I wasn't much bigger than she, which was a factor working against me but I did have a shovel so I was certain I was safe.
I walked toward her, slowly advancing (she was about 20 feet away) and she didn't move. Suddenly she stood up on her hind legs and so I stopped. We might have been the same height then although she probably was bigger round. She reached out her paw or whatever you call those on raccoons, and then I knew what she wanted. She wanted to be friends and shake my hand. If I had known that sooner I would've put the shovel down and shown less aggression. To be honest I was afraid of shaking this little guy's paw thing and so I didn't and I think she understood that because she got back down on her all-fours and backed away. Relieved she was gone, I continued digging, keeping one eye on the look-out for Ms. Raccoon. I'm pretty sure she was female because she looked pregnant.