New Enclosure Kickoff - Open Saturday September 30

Horribly misunderstood and horribly mistreated…to the point that they won’t leave their house without a mask on. 

Yes. 

I’m talking about raccoons! 

Initially when I was contacted about taking in a baby raccoon I said no and gave the information over for a wildlife rehabber. Later that night I pulled up Facebook and began my nightly scrolling. TWO POSTS where people had shot raccoons in their yard. ONE of the post stated that it was shot during the day so it MUST have rabies, it was clearly a nursing mother that was hungry based off the appearance of swollen teats in the picture and the fact that it was eating food out of a trash can when it was shot. 

This broke my heart to know that baby raccoons would now be sitting in a nest starving to death. After some research I called back the person raising the raccoon…