03.12.08
albino raccoons and raccoon families
Updating last summer’s report from friend C! on the truly unusual occurrence of not one but THREE baby albino raccoons living in her neighborhood…
Cat meets raccoon!!! Big OOOPPPSSS!!
These pix of C!’s from July - November 2007 show the progress of all the coon babies. Sadly, one albino they called Cecilia began to visit in October without her mother, although she was too young at three months to be without her mother.
C! speculated that mom coon had met her demise, leaving Cecilia orphaned. Despite C’s best efforts providing food and water in a very dry fall, Cecilia began to show up solo, acting lethargic and looking less and less healthy in early December.
In this shot I count sixteen including the albino!
Finally it was realized that Cecilia was blind. Not long after, she passed away, perhaps from some raccoon ailment or else from lack of a mother, and received a solemn burial in C!’s backyard. They are not sure what has become of the other two albinos, Pinky and ???.
