our favorite pet ever

As I was browsing through our pictures online, I came across these of Roxy! We found Roxy while we were 4 wheeling and honestly thought that she had been ran over and was on the brink of death. The kids of course wanted to give her a fighting chance so we agreed that we would take her to our house in Richfield and see what happened.

Upon arrival, I ran over to the family dollar and bought an eye dropper and kitten milk, while Sean was deciding where to dig the hole to bury her in the backyard. Well, after dropping a little milk in her mouth she started looking a little more lively. By that evening, she took her 1st steps and we were all in love!
We brought her home and she was with us for 6 months! She was the best. I potty trained her in a litter box which she caught onto the 1st day. Her little hands were just fascinating, how she would clean her food, and how very soft they were. She was only nice to us, other people made her very nervous and she would run and hide and sometimes put out this awful smelling musk defense scent. YUCK!

We let her go over by my mom's house in Bloomington and she made friends with some other racoons, whom were probably very jealous of her shiny well maintained hair. We still see her every so often and are proud to say that she now has 3 little babies of her own.

I know you are thinking how racoons carry diseases, so where we. We had a vet come and check her out and she was only a few weeks old when we found her and the only food she had was from her mothers teet. So the vet said she was no different than a dog or cat, because she hadn't been exposed to anything.