The Holyoke Police Department and a Good Samaritan assisted with the raccoon rescue in Holyoke, Mass. Brenton Blanchet is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

A raccoon found in west Fayetteville tested positive for rabies, Cumberland County Animal Services announced April 23. According to a news release, the injured raccoon was found on Barnabus ...

Raccoons are often pictured as cute, masked critters that snatch scraps from a garbage can or munch down on pet food. But they can be a menace and cause damage to your lawn and garden. Since ...

A Palm Beach County woman is recovering after being attacked by a raccoon in her own backyard.It happened in the PGA National Community in Palm Beach Gardens when Gayl Heinz was getting ready for ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) - A raccoon that had been seen stuck at a windowsill at the federal building in Huntington was helped down by officers with the West Virginia Natural Resources Police.

April 23 (UPI) --West Virginia Natural Resources Police came to the rescue of a raccoon stranded for several days on a windowsill high over the ground. Employees at the United Bank in Huntington ...

BISHOPVILLE, MD -- Officials with the Worcester County Health Department are sounding the alarm for a rabid raccoon found in Bishopville. Officials said the animal was found near St. Martin's ...

The “Going back to” is the first part of a headline spread over several pages. No, what made PC Connection ads unique was the imagery of anthropomorphic raccoons, the work of an illustrator named ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WSVN) — A well-known raccoon in South Florida will undergo surgery after he faced a health scare. Louie the Raccoon’s owner announced on Instagram that the raccoon had not ...

Photo from Holyoke Police Department via Facebook An alert bystander who noticed a raccoon with its head stuck in a storm drain grate later assisted police with its rescue using two laundry pods ...

And we literally mean hanging around. That “someone” is a raccoon that has been wondering around the outside windows of the building for five days now. He or she is sometimes peacefully asleep ...