A new study has shown that Raccoons are showing early signs of domestication. The University of Arkansas found that urban raccoons have smaller snouts, a sign of domestication syndrome.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

In 2016, Sarah Holmes Bookbinder and her husband, Paul Bookbinder, got a phone call from a friend who had found two orphaned baby raccoons. Could the Bookbinders take them? It wasn’t an unusual ...

In 2016, Sarah Holmes Bookbinder and her husband, Paul Bookbinder, got a phone call from a friend who had found two orphaned baby raccoons. Could the Bookbinders take them? It wasn’t an unusual ...