Baby raccoons on my deck

Jan 31, 2024 11:58 AM

TheVoidFrog

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With my most recent raccoon post going Most Viral (https://imgur.com/gallery/sEM0xnq) here is a flashback to the time I came home to find 2 baby raccoons napping on my deck.

This is as close as I got to them. I left them alone after this for hours, but their mom never came back. Eventually, I sadly had to call animal control, and they went to a shelter nearby. Last I heard, they are both doing well.

Note: I have since painted my deck.

Baby bandits

2 years ago | Likes 46 Dislikes 0

Are. They. Holding. HANDS??

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Double cheeky trouble!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They have shelters for raccoons?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So cute!!

2 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Please sir, more.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Give cat food and if your cold their cold, bring them inside!

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Unlike most, these kits come fully assembled.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And other old timey names for STDs

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone call Linda

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So precious. There's a mom raccoon with 6 babies running around our neighborhood at night. I feed a couple of stray cats (before it gets dark), but had to go out and stand guard on the porch one night that they didn't finish. Poor mama raccoon hissed up a storm to let me know not to approach the yard while she walked her babies through. They were adorable though.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

RAKENS! That's wtf those things are that have been eating all my weed

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Can we see a post-painting pic of your deck?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Awwwwww!!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Show us your deck!

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Someone left their slippers on your deck

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Two of these little guys were in the road stopping traffic in front of my home. We collected them up and released them that night. Their mom picked them up for a happy ending.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You missed out on having two mischievous hijinks creating house mates that are cute and cuddly. Could have been a sitcom IRL. I cannot resist cuteness. Would have coaxed them in and dealt with the aftermath later.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Mom just went for cigs.

2 years ago | Likes 245 Dislikes 0

Tell her to say hi to my dad!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

She's black & white trash

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

2/10

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Slow down when you drive at night .

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Awwww, little cuties! So sad that their mom vanished. But good to hear that a shelter took them in.

2 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 0

Hi

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Hello

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

?

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

You painted little paw prints where they slept, right?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I rehabbed baby trashpandas legally. Some of the best animals imho, somewhere between a cross of the mischief of a cat with the socialization habits like dogs. Only one couldn't be released due to medical issues, and he lived a nice life in a raccoon house on a pole.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If my father-in-law would not be a conservation officer (New Brunswick, Canada thing) I would have so many wild racoons living with me. I'm not saying it would be a good thing I'm just saying it would be inevitable.

2 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

I think you might reconsider after the first one

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

You talk as if I've never been bitten by ransom animals before

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I rather thought you might never have had a pet that can open ALL your doors and cupboards 😄

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I had one for a short while whilst finding a rehabber. They do not understand boundaries, or "No", and child locks are generally made of materials they can gnaw through in moments, so that it to no avail. Best I could do was lock it in the shower with the valve turned off, when I couldn't actively supervise it.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Do you know what the shelter did with them? Release? Give to another facility later on?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They said it's very unlikely they would ever be able to release them back to the wild unless they could find the mother, unfortunately.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Ah, that sucks but I thought so. I think they normally learn a lot from her before separating. I was also wondering because over here they are an invasive species and if you bring an injured one to a rehab facility they are not allowed to release them again. They then give them to zoos etc.

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