I saw this headline and had to watch the video! The Skunk Whisperer (hehehe) was called by a woman at an apartment complex (in Tulsa, OK) and he came out to rescue 2 baby raccoons who were stuck in a Pepsi vending machine. OHMYGOSH they are so cute!
Now, they are little savages too (they are *wild* animals) so I’m glad this woman was smart enough to call a professional to do this. I know they can be little beasties because several months I went out to our backyard to investigate a weird noise and came face-to-face with a baby raccoon who charged me! I think he was making this weird noise (the same noise the baby raccoon makes in this video!!) calling his Mom. The raccoons, cats and skunks in the neighborhood use a small hole under our house to move around from our street to the one behind us. I consider it their very own Underground Railroad..the scents in the yard drive the huskies CRAZY! And this also means I always have to check the yard before letting them out so they don’t surprise any critters (or get surprised by the skunks!)
So anyway, it was like 7am, I went outside to investigate this noise. I walk down the stairs from our deck to the backyard and all of a sudden I hear the noise right behind me. This teeny, tiny little raccoon is screeching and comes running at me! I start laughing because the thing is SO dang cute but it is charging at me and I know they aren’t quite as sweet & cuddly to people as my huskies so I start yelling to wake up my husband to help me.
But I literally cannot stop laughing either because this little guy keeps charging at me (blocking the stairs so I can’t go back up to the deck.) So between the laughing and screaming (which of course does not wake up my husband – good thing not a serial killer!) I’m thinking what if the Mom comes back too with me out here?
Now, in reality, I could have kicked the little thing if I was really worried. But if you know anything about me, you know I would never do that unless the thing was actually threatening my dogs (who were inside by the way.) So it’s not like I was worried about my safety too much. More just not sure what to do because I did NOT want to hurt the little guy but he was very snarly and kept charging me and keeping me away from the stairs. But…I simply cannot stop giggling and thinking it looks like one of those battery-operated stuffed animals :)
So finally I make a move to my right so he charges that way and then I run up the stairs to the left and he FOLLOWS ME! I slam the gate shut so he can’t come up on the deck and he is at the gate sticking his little head through the slats! Brave little bastard :) But I was giggling for minutes at that!!
But yay! I outsmarted him…the little baby raccoon…umm…OK….so here is this cute (it’s short – watch it!) video of the racoon pepsi machine rescue :)
