The woman attempted using a metal trashcan and a cardboard box to get the raccoon out, but neither option worked.

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

The parents of two babies who were sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak linked to recalled ByHeart infant formula are ...

Sheryl and Richard Bartone, a mother and son who own Bartone’s Apizza on Main Street in Derby, are upset after a raccoon they were keeping outside the restaurant as a pet was taken by state ...

Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a racoon from a restaurant in Derby ...

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 ...

The Kitsap Public Health Board is considering an update to its three-decade-old rodent control policy that would prohibit feeding wildlife in Kitsap County. John Kiess, director of environmental ...