Mushing baby raccoons

A licensed wildlife rehabilitator offers baby orphaned raccoons "mush" - a mix of raccoon formula, rice baby food and mashed bananas. They're very messy eaters!

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• raccoon
• wildlife
• baby

[daveni2]

I thought this was somewhere in Ontario by the accent it's amazing how the dialect is so similar to Canadian even exaggerated, Wisconsin dialect is most definitely the most like Canadian. Love the raccoons btw

[kosborn90]

@daveni2 Oh no! Is it that bad already? I moved up here from Chicago after high school and used to have a nice Chicago accent. Sigh...

[saprater25]

Aw, I just adore those cute trilling noises they make. What happens to them when they reach adulthood? Will they be released into the wild? I know some animals can but others can't b/c they become too tame.

[kosborn90]

@saprater25 Yes, they all are released back into the wild. We own a small farm, mostly wooded now. By September, they are starting to get wild and afraid of humans (hard to believe given how they act in the video).

[KONSMITH]

(part 2 ) to leave them on there own , so we decided to leave them be,and let them use the crawl space, ( by the way the crawl space is o the 3 story of my house) it was a few months later , and they all peaced off, and the mother, and another raccon, still was using the crawl space, im not sure is the other raccon, was one of the babys or not , but every time my cat would run into it out side, they wouldnt fight each other, they would sit there, and smell each other, i think they where friends

[kosborn90]

@KONSMITH Thanks for leaving them alone. They really don't like to be so close to humans, but there really aren't so many nesting spots available since we've moved into their territory. They'll move out once the babies are mobile (as you discovered). Folks pay hundreds of dollars to have them removed by critter control trappers. Save your money and a few lives.

[animepunk812]

they make cute noises XDD

[kosborn90]

@junkyarddogify You're kidding, right?

[snippax]

I love their trilling and it's so sweet that they call for and follow you like you're their mum. Good to know you've released them all back into the wild. You've got a good heart to take care of those babies.

[Omg10x]

What do feed them at that edge??

[kosborn90]

@scottclements78  Umm...have you heard of Wikipedia?

[MissKayteeLady]

aww they're so beautiful :)

[zeekhedgehog]

Hope your getting the fifth one to eat :)

[dldupuy]

it does not look like you put down enough food for all of them. I feed a family of baby racoons and they eat a lot more then that

[janeyanna]

Lol, why even bother to put in a plate? Just let them eat directly out of that box :))