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Wildlife
Hi all Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!!!!
Recently I had the displeasure of finding someone who found a baby Raccoon and decided to try to make a pet out of it unfortunatly a few weeks later they released it because it tried to attack them but now this baby is used to human contact and may or maynot survive on it's own. After finding out that they had the critter i contacted the locale DNR office and due to thier lack of wardens nothing got done about this problem.
As a reminder to all yes baby wildlife is very cute and can be fun to watch but by no means are they meant to be pets!!!!!
Racoons are one of the few wildlife that if a baby is left behind another mother will adopt it or it's own mother will come back if she is able if you find one just stay back and watch to see if the mother comes back (usually a few hours) if not please do not try to catch it yourself call your locale wildlife rescue and they will come and get it for free and take it to Wildlife in Need where they will feed and care for the animal until it can be released.
racoons can carry many infections that not only will harm humans but will also harm your pets.
also remember unless you have special permits to own these critters it is illegal.
Again i'm just posting this as a reminder
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Lori J Miller
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