This
story is from volunteer Karen Inman.
On the evening of April 7, 2005, we received a call from a kind lady
that
lived here in St. Augustine. They had found an adult raccoon laying in
their
yard. The poor raccoon was unable to get up or even lift her head. She
had
been hit by a car. When we arrived she was just laying there, so we
gathered
her up, put her into a large carrier and headed back to the center.
After we
got home with her, we took her out of the carrier and began to check her
out to see what her injuries were. She had severe head trauma, her upper
lip was torn in two places on either side of her nose, her left hind leg
was broken, she also appeared to be blind and to top it all off she
appeared
to be pregnant. We had hoped that the blindness was only temporary
because
of her head injuries. She was kept in the large carrier because of the
injury to her leg.
Weeks went by and she appeared to be recovering very well. Still no
babies, so on May 8, 2005, I just assumed that I was mistaken about her
being
pregnant. She had recovered from her injuries and even regained her
sight
back, so we decided to move her to a large cage in order for her to
exercise
her injured leg.
So, about 9:00 a.m. on Sunday morning we went out to move her, this was
also Mother's Day. When we got out to the carrier, we found her laying
in
the corner of her carrier, cleaning a little tiny baby. We left her
alone
thinking she would have more babies by the end of the day. To our
surprise
there were no more babies. A few days later we were able to check the
baby
out and it was a little baby girl. She was already just as fat as she
could
be and doing very well with her mother.
The family that had called us about her to begin with, wanted to name
her Ms. Scooby-Doo, so we decided since the mother's name was Ms.
Scooby-Doo,
that we would name the baby Ms. Honey-Doo. Both mother and baby have
done
very well. Mother and baby were released on October 12, 2005 and we wish
them
both well.
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