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How to Raise a Baby Raccoon | Live Free or Die: DIY


my friend Clint has come by today
he’s a wildlife biologist at a nearby
outdoor education center and I think
he’s brought a little friend for us look
at today
what is it baby bear nicer baby raccoon
but a week old still got his eyes closed
we’re just gonna be back
well somebody called me the other night
and he said well you come get this baby
raccoon to take care of it because I
don’t know how and I said sure I’ll be
down there and pick him up I assumed
that he probably got blown out of a tree
in that bad weather and drifted down the
stream and it’s amazing those storms
knocked down Denning trees animals have
to survive themselves look at that he’s
taking a nap right there on my hand feed
me milk replacer just powderized it he’s
got a lot of sugar and carbohydrates
check his mouth see if you’ve got any
teeth yet notice or not yeah I’m gonna
put him in here and this leather will
make you feel all happy check his mouth
see if he’s got teeth there’s a lot of
homemade country recipes no sir you can
work on to get these little baby wild
animals a good start of course is secret
you know feeding them really often not
necessarily a lot but really awful tips
are very happy keeps your digestion
going the erection is one of the
toughest animals out there once again
going to get grown up take a whuppin
animal twice their size and climb trees
swim taking care of part logs and eat
bugs about midsummer when the babies are
big enough to follow bum around and
she’s giving them their PhD in foraging
when they weigh about two pounds
something like that she’ll follow up and
open up logs wade through creeks dig
holes and if they’re not paying
attention she’ll walk back and slack one
of them it’s really important to stop
traffic on time so that their pregnant
females can go ahead and have three for
offspring
so they multiply really fast and they’re
really tough they’re kind of omnibus the
lead almost anything once we get big
enough they got a real good taste of
crawdads minnows and fish and sweet days
berries funny he’s probably a little bit
young to be the sweet pea
but if you mix up a little bit of
homemade grits different honey in it
will get a little bigger just called a
pretty happy
I mean he’s crying that looks like a
little baby swollen he’s just frustrated
you don’t make sure what he wants
well they sure make a racket don’t you
yeah it’s kind of a cross between crying
and purring like a cat it’s okay buddy
you’re singing to him sometimes
sometimes he need me shut up didn’t you
see how you keep this good act like a
mama you ever been a mama see he’s all
calm down now I had to do this per back
any they know everything’s okay if he
wanted to smell something safe and you
want her to hear Mama’s boys
okay he’s going to sleep now he feels
safe he be warm keep him safe take good
care of him don’t forget to take him
outside on walks don’t keep him in the
house all the time
no sir look he’s going to be out in the
backyard for a little bit until he goes
to the center don’t forget to start
beating bugs when you get this a little
bit older when it gets a little bigger
and old enough to fend for himself a
little bit I’ll put him out some food
and put him in the wild it kind of
gradually wean put out less and less
food so he wanders farther every day and
reintroducing back the wild we don’t
want him to lose the skill of foraging
if we feed him too much and it gets too
old he’ll get too lazy to forage for
himself he might not make in the wild
but when he’s a teenager if you kick him
out of the nest put him in the woods and
just put a little food out it he can go
out and find his own weight and when he
doesn’t get lucky and find something
come back and eat the food you put out
boring it when he comes back to say hi
to him talk way
practically trained to throw up kind of
like sending a kid to college you know
what I mean yeah basically bringing by
raising that good tritium right don’t
forget to give them an outdoor education
by putting them outdoors I’ll bring him
back the seed thanks for coming by
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