Jamie & Scott were gone all day yesterday at a horse show - Jamie actually competed for the first time. It was about 10:30 when they finally got home (after leaving before 7:00 am). They brought home a visitor - a baby raccoon.Apparently they watched a van stop at the side of the road and drop the baby raccoon off before driving away. As we all know, there was no way that Jamie could drive by that defenseless baby, so....... home it came, wrapped in a blanket that was in my Jeep and which I now have to throw out once Jamie's friend is done with it. He/she is currently resting comfortably in one of our dog crates in the garage (with the blanket of course). Jamie spent a lot of time this morning trying to find someone to take this little guy, but it appears that all of the rescue places have their fill of raccoons. This little guy will be with us until tomorrow when I can call the Minidtry of Natural Resources.
In the meantime, Salt Haven - a very well known rescue organization recommended that we give him as much pedialyte as he'll take every 2 hours.
Now, this morning, as usual, I was the first one up and the first one to check up on baby raccoon. He was all curled up with the blanket over top of him and I could not get him to stir, even poking him. Jamie and Scott were rudely awakened long before they would have gotten up, left to their own devices. Jamie was able to get a bit of a reaction from him. After trying to find a better home for him, it was off to the drug store for pedialyte and a syringe and boy, was that raccoon hungry!!!!! We've fed him twice now and both times he's taken about 9 cc which is what the fellow at Salt Haven said he should probably take.These photos were tough to get - Jamie woke him up to get them and he wasn't very happy. I'll try to get some better ones when we feed him next.
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