I would rather live with animals than people, so with that said, i have a story to tell.
One July 4th, 2007…i was sitting on my porch at around 8pm having my coffee and peace and quite…when i kept hearing a sound i never heard before. I knew it was some kind of animal, and it sounded as though it was in distress, i could not find out where it was coming from, and at 8pm there is still traffic and the noise was drowning out the sound.
So later that night around 1am. i went back outside and it was raining, and i could still hear the sound?…so my oldest son, went out with me , with a flashlight, and we went across the street and started searching the bushes, when low and behold, out came a baby raccoon!
Now this baby had been out there for a few hours crying, so i knew the mother was not around, so i got my cat carrier, and took the baby inside. went to the store and bought a baby bottle, and some kitten formula, and started bottle feeding the baby, he was starving!
next day, my neighbor told me that 6 days earlier, our neighbors had hired a wildlife control man to come and trap a raccoon that was living in his tree, and the man new it was a nursing mother, and told my neighbor that there were probably babies in the tree stump, and it would cost him 45$ per baby, !!!…the neighbor could not afford that, so instead of leaving the mother alone, he took the mother, and left the babies to die!!!!!!!!! of starvation!!!!
Well i had one baby, and two days later, 2 more babies came down the tree, so now i had three babies, and the were the sweetest things, they purr and love you , they are precious.
So i contacted a wild life rescurer and she met me after a week and took all three of my babies….my favorite zorro, i called him..lol…i miss sooo much. well..3 days later, 4 more babies were seen at top to the same tree, so i called the rescurer and they came and climbed the tree, and got allllllll the babies out…all together there were 7…..out of the 7, 4 ended up dieing, from starvation!..a slow , painful death. I cried for ever….how could someone do that to these poor babies??????..i dont understand.
anyway, the local news found out, and i went on tv, with the wildlife people, and we put a complaint in against the wildlife control company, and found out it was not the first time he was accused of this type of animal abuse, and on top of that, the mother was supposed to be humanely , instead this man took her out back and shot her. !
I love animals, and i do know that some don’t , but this is not called for, those babies did not have to die, that man, should of took the mother and the babies, and brought them to the wildlife rescurers or whoever he finds. animal abuse is not called for, and starvation is the worst animal abuse and the sadest way for a baby to die.