So I came home from lunch on Friday and there was a baby raccoon on my front steps. A lady across the street said she had called animal control to come get it and after work it was gone. As I was leaving for church this morning, I saw it again on my back porch. Put some milk out for it as it looked really weak and it didn't drink any, but at some point it climbed the steps up to the third story porch, so it must not be as weak as I thought.

Anyway, I've googled some in search of a humane (i.e. no-kill) removal/rescue organization in the area with no luck. It looks like there are one or two commercial services, but I'm not really interested in paying a company to catch it and either kill or release the raccoon, as it seems rather helpless. Any ideas?

6/7/2009 2:26:06 PM

6/7/2009 2:32:44 PM

/chit chat

6/7/2009 2:34:20 PM

/stupid threads

6/7/2009 2:41:05 PM

/stupid posters

6/7/2009 2:44:49 PM

/raccoon

6/7/2009 3:17:59 PM

When momma had coons on the back porch she would just chase 'em off with a broom.

6/7/2009 3:23:44 PM

6/7/2009 3:25:41 PM

What about an animal trap? You can relocate it yourself to a park or a wooded area.

6/7/2009 3:34:39 PM

^yeah, thought about that, but don't really have one handy. ended up just calling animal control myself this time... maybe the raccoon moved before they could get him the last time, but he's just been sunning himself on the porch for the last couple hours. wake county's website claims animal control won't euthanize unless it's really necessary.

and gg on the gump quote

6/7/2009 3:48:59 PM

i'm pretty sure that relocating a baby raccoon is going to get it killed anyway

6/7/2009 3:51:16 PM

that's why i was looking for an organization that would have the resources to care for it until it's old enough to be released

6/7/2009 4:08:44 PM

http://www.nczoo.org/animals/wildliferehabadvice.html

You're really going to have to care, though. You gotta drive to the zoo with a baby raccoon in your car.

6/7/2009 4:50:51 PM

kill it and eat it

i assume baby raccoon would be along the same lines as veal

6/7/2009 5:14:10 PM

Jesus fucking christ.

6/7/2009 5:27:31 PM

Oh man, if it were me, I would so make it a pet and domesticate it!!!

6/7/2009 5:31:07 PM

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"You're really going to have to care, though. You gotta drive to the zoo with a baby raccoon in your car."

Sounds like a cool adventure to me

6/7/2009 5:47:10 PM

NEVER give animals milk. it kills them.

if you really want to help it PM me.

you cant rescue raccoons legally, but there are people "underground" that do

i can put you in touch with them.

6/7/2009 7:07:59 PM

^yeah same here. I'm actually a fellow rescuer.

Contact me

Ten Ten
3812 Western Blvd
Raleigh, NC 27606
(919) 856-1818

-manager

6/7/2009 7:35:03 PM

^^ you are making some bizarre blanket statements there.

milk kills animals? just babies, or adults even? anyway, i have given milk to countless stray cats and kittens over the past few decades, and none of them died.

and is it really illegal to rescue raccoons? what type of bullshit stupid law is that?

6/7/2009 7:43:08 PM

raccoons are wild animals. Rodents, who carry diseases.

The only reason people rescue them is because they are some of the cutest babies in the animal kingdom.

now, i'm not at all a cold hearted son of a bitch (some may even call me a bleeding-heart liberal), but abandoned animals (like raccoons, squirrels, rabbits), or animals who have lost their mother, are probably better off dead. You can't relocate them and expect them to survive on their own - if you do that, you're simply making it an "out of sight, out of mind" problem, as the animal will starve to death or be killed by a predator. You also can't domesticate them yourself and expect them to become pets, because their wilder natural instincts will take over soon enough, but when you are forced to release them again as adults, they won't have the survival skills they should have learned from their mother.

6/7/2009 7:51:39 PM

cow milk gives animals diarrhea that doesnt go away. it kills young animals, and is not healthy for most large animals. all depends on their innards you know, they arent all the same.

in north carolina it is illegal to rescue raccoons, and i think possums as well.

6/7/2009 7:54:52 PM

Go ahead. Rescue it. Maybe it will come back when it's an adult, bite someone (or their pet), and give them rabies.

Not worth it.

[Edited on June 7, 2009 at 8:29 PM. Reason : -]

6/7/2009 8:26:37 PM

you cannot possess native NC wildlife without a permit.
Contact a wildlife rehabilator to assist you with the raccoon.

http://ncwildliferehab.org/

A few that I'm familar with:
http://www.piedmontwildlifecenter.org/
http://www.nc-claws.org/


Milk
You shouldn't give milk from one species of animal to another. The milk of each species differs widely from that of every other and each is especially fitted to meet the needs of the young of that species.
It's unwise to give cats or any other domestic animal milk. It can wreck havoc on their GI tract. (unhealthy for them and a mess for you to clean up).
They simply do not possess the enzymes to break down the lactose present in the milk.

http://www.sos-raccoon.com/waschbaerbabys-engl.htm <- random info on baby raccoons.

good luck. hope you can help the little guy out.

6/7/2009 8:54:47 PM

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" raccoons are wild animals. Rodents, who carry diseases"

Raccoons are rodents? really?

Why not just let it be? If you want it hanging around, feed it. If not just ignore him and secure your trash.

6/7/2009 9:36:07 PM

does wake county not have animal control you can call?

[Edited on June 7, 2009 at 11:51 PM. Reason : oh fuck, you're probably worried they'll kill it ]

6/7/2009 11:50:57 PM

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"ended up just calling animal control myself this time..."

would have just done that off the bat, but someone else told me they called friday and the raccoon was still there, so i figured animal control didn't show/were unreliable.

it didn't drink any of the milk i put out. lady who came to get it said that it was too young, it would only take it from a bottle, so it definitely would have died if i just let it be. not sure that calling animal control was any better, but i wanted to make sure it got picked up soon.

6/8/2009 12:09:48 AM

6/8/2009 7:51:27 AM

maybe when animal control showed up they couldn't find it. you said that you thought it was gone, but then it reappeared, so maybe it was something like that.

6/8/2009 7:55:23 AM

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"raccoons are wild animals. Rodents, who carry diseases. "

thread winnar

6/8/2009 9:51:47 AM

Raccoons carry disease just like any other wild animal, but they certainly are not rodents.

I would leave the baby raccoon alone. For the very reasons many people love them, they are real pests once they lose their fear of humans. And though it can and has been done before (my uncle had one when I was a kid), they are challenging and destructive pets.

6/8/2009 10:22:08 AM