Five newborn raccoons!

[eohartman]

On Friday, I picked up five newborn raccoons from Cobb County Animal Control. The mother was trapped in someone's attic and released outside, leaving the babies behind. Thankfully, the homeowners brought them into animal control, and a rehabber who works there contacted me. The raccoons are currently about a week old and weigh 125 grams, measuring about 4 inches long. They're so tiny! They're in that so-ugly-they're-cute stage: their eyes and ears are fully closed, and they're pretty awkward creatures, as you'll see in the video below. I think these are the youngest raccoons I've rehabbed. Thankfully, they're all healthy and in great shape - I don't expect to have any problems with them. In a couple more weeks, they'll look more like raccoons and have fine motor skills down pat. Until then, they're just balls of awkwardness:
Four of them:


And a video of their awkwardness:

They look just as awkward as I felt in middle school.

Comments

[sailorgarnet.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure those were the five cutest minutes of my entire life!

[halfawakemoon.livejournal.com]

They ARE so ugly they're cute!! But, then again, anything tiny and wiggling around aimlessly is cute. Your job is so awesome.

[halfawakemoon.livejournal.com]

And I guess "job" isn't the right term... your PASSION is so awesome.

[lizzie.livejournal.com]

lol And they'll get even cuter once they start looking less like weird awkward things and more like baby raccoons!

[lizzie.livejournal.com]

lol, indeed! I have to keep telling people they're so ugly they're cute, because they SO do not look like baby raccoons yet.