A heartwarming story of a cat caring for a rescued baby raccoon.

As a tiny orphan, Penelope would wrap her paws around her rescuer’s neck and cling tightly, riding on her shoulder during car trips and running back for comfort whenever she was scared. Raised indoors ...

DERBY — A woman who helps run a local pizzeria said she rescued a baby raccoon, keeping it in an outdoor habitat, before authorities seized the animal last month. In a statement Tuesday from the state ...

Raccoons are an established part of suburban wildlife. They can live in a sewer drain, have no natural predators and get nightly handouts via outdoor pet food bowls and bird feeders. I get many ...

A dumpster-diving raccoon that got so trashed on alcohol-fermented peaches it stopped breathing was saved by bighearted Kentucky nurse Misty Combs, who brought the critter back to life with CPR, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Vancouver Police Department said officers rescued a baby raccoon that was being kept illegally as a pet while responding to a reported disturbance on Sunday. ‘This is ...

Vancouver police officers played the role of wildlife rescuer when responding to a call last week. Officers arrived in east Vancouver to investigate a disturbance Friday and found a person carrying a ...

A Kentucky nurse performed CPR on a baby raccoon that was found unresponsive in a dumpster. The raccoon had become intoxicated after eating fermented peaches discarded by a local distillery. The nurse ...

CENTRAL, La. (WAFB) - A baby raccoon is unrestrained thanks to a Good Samaritan and some care from Central police and firefighters. A woman was driving down Sullivan Road near Wax Road when she saw ...

This dumpster-diving raccoon got trashed. When Kentucky nurse Misty Combs headed into work at Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, she didn’t expect one of her patients that day to be a ...

Bub, the famous raccoon, at top with tongue out, and other young raccoons, at the Leyden Wildlife Rehab Center. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ When the founder of the Leyden Center for Wildlife Rehabilitation ...

“It was the motherly instinct in me,” Misty Combs of Kentucky said of rescuing the unconscious animal LEX 18/Youtube;Getty A nurse in Kentucky performed CPR on a drunken raccoon The raccoon had ...