Baby raccoons pay a visit to Medicine Hat backyard

Knippshild said when he saw the raccoons sitting on their patio furniture, he was surprised at what he saw.

“They were just out there playing and I finally had to close the door because one came out from underneath. He maybe smelled food in the house or something but he was getting a little too close they were already about four feet away from me.” Knippshild said.

He took out his phone and captured this video.

(submitted video/ David Knippshild)

“I just thought, I’m just going to record this because, nobody is going to believe me, unless I get this, especially at work and that’s how it all started,” Knippshild said.

Marty Drut, park interpreter with the MH interpretive program said raccoons, while not common, do exist in the community.

“They are adaptable to what we provide to them so they can eat garbage, pet food, they can eat compost all kinds of things,” Drut said.

“They take advantage of the things that we leave in our yards to go there and have their babies and use as a den, so they can be in an old shed, a pipe, all kids of things,” Drut added.

The couple said they suspect the three baby raccoons and their mother are nesting in their neighbor’s chimney, and they also believe the three little critters may have had something to do with a missing solar panel.

“The lights were all pushed down pretty good, you could see the claw marks on the tree and they ripped off about a four or five inch solar panel and they snapped it right off I checked both yards, everywhere, it’s definitely gone,” Knippshild laughed.

“I have not checked inside their den yet but that will be the next step,” he said.

by Tiffany Goodwein

Baby raccoons pay a visit to Medicine Hat backyard

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