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Jilly_in_VA

(13,086 posts) Thu Sep 11, 2025, 03:22 PM Sep 11

Kentucky nurse gives CPR to drunk baby raccoon trapped in a dumpster

When Misty Combs found a baby raccoon, drunk on fermented peaches and drowning in a dumpster, she knew she had to try to save it.

As a nurse, Combs was well aware of the risks of interacting with a wild animal in distress. She could get attacked. She could even get rabies.

But when she saw the little critter — sopping wet, unconscious and reeking of booze as its mother paced frantically nearby — her caregiving instincts kicked in.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/drunk-raccoon-cpr-1.7630379

Funny but true story. We all need a little levity today.

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Kentucky nurse gives CPR to drunk baby raccoon trapped in a dumpster (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 11 OP

Now there's a headline you won't read every day. marmar Sep 11 #1

the starlings wait for our ivy berries to get boozy. pansypoo53219 Sep 11 #2

I still remember Jilly_in_VA Sep 12 #3

Man, don't even get me started on the initiation for pledging an elephant fraternity. Xavier Breath Sep 12 #4

marmar

(78,874 posts)

1. Now there's a headline you won't read every day.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 08:41 PM

Sep 11

pansypoo53219

(22,602 posts)

2. the starlings wait for our ivy berries to get boozy.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Sep 11, 2025, 09:43 PM

Sep 11

Jilly_in_VA

(13,086 posts)

3. I still remember

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 07:31 AM

Sep 12

laughing helplessly over a Gerale Durrell story of a troop of bachelor elephants getting drunk on rotten fruit and lobbing it at each other like a bumch of drunk frat boys.

Xavier Breath

(6,150 posts)

4. Man, don't even get me started on the initiation for pledging an elephant fraternity.