HALIFAX — A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she'll grow her fur coat – including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes.
HALIFAX — A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she'll grow her fur coat – including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes.
A couple in West Arichat discovered the shivering, three-kilogram female in their backyard last week and brought her to a Cape Breton veterinary clinic, where she received fluids before being sent to the wildlife shelter in Seaforth, N.S. If that proves impossible, however, she says the shelter may provide Rufus with an enclosed, outdoor habitat with her own hut.
Swinimer has been providing care to injured or ailing wildlife for over 30 years and says while she's seen earlier cases of alopecia in raccoons, Rufus is the most extreme example. Several of the animals who have become permanent residents of the shelter, which currently has 250 occupants, have had special habitat created for them.
"It will include fun things she wouldn't have in the wild, such as hammocks and nesting boxes," she added.
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