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

[Jilly_in_VA]

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.

[marmar]

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

[pansypoo53219]

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

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. I still remember

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]

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

Whoo boy.