Photo: Santa Cruz Animal Shelter
This is one determined raccoon. The Santa Cruz Animal Shelter in California wrote in a Facebook post that a local resident called the Wildlife Emergency Services number on Monday (May 23rd) to report a raccoon had chewed a hole in their roof, and gotten stuck trying to climb through. The shelter said the homeowners were told how to push the raccoon through the hole so it would not suffocate. They also noted the raccoon turned out to be a mother and was reunited with her babies nearby, and that Wildlife Emergency Services personnel are now helping the homeowner “set up a repellent barrier to safely and humanely have mama and her kids move along to a more appropriate home.”