{"id":2185377,"date":"2025-01-28T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=2185377"},"modified":"2025-01-25T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:42:49","slug":"man-finds-baby-raccoons-in-bag-of-mulch-and-saves-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/man-finds-baby-raccoons-in-bag-of-mulch-and-saves-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Finds Baby Raccoons in Bag of Mulch and Saves Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man\u2019s gardening plans took an unexpected turn when he opened a bag of mulch and discovered three baby raccoons nestled inside.<\/p>\n<p>Unsure how to help the tiny creatures, he reached out to Owl\u2019s Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Following the sanctuary\u2019s advice, the man brought the raccoons back to the Home Depot where he\u2019d purchased the mulch.<\/p>\n<p>Employees at the garden center quickly confirmed that the mother raccoon had been spotted nearby.<\/p>\n<p>To everyone\u2019s relief, the reunion unfolded just as they hoped. \u201cIn a heartwarming reunion, the mother raccoon cautiously approached and, one by one, picked up each of her babies,\u201d the sanctuary shared. She relocated them to a safer area, far from the busy store.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctuary praised the man and Home Depot staff for their quick thinking. \u201cThis incident was a beautiful reminder of the unexpected surprises nature can bring and the importance of acting quickly and compassionately,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fowlsnestsanctuaryforwildlife%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0HeUsxsyPs1UdDFfzAbfMFEUraqCtZ5xiAjPd7yiYfQKdku4PbTdDr5c2FqhVg2T6l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"787\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animals\/man-finds-baby-raccoons-in-bag-of-mulch-and-saves-their-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">article<\/a> by Trinity Sparke was first published by One Green Planet on 22 January 2025. 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Unsure how to help the tiny creatures, he reached out to Owl\u2019s Nest Sanctuary for Wildlife. Following the sanctuary\u2019s advice, the man brought the raccoons back to the Home Depot where he\u2019d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":2203735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/shutterstock_1099831442-scaled-e1736180521115.jpg?w=750&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"Man Finds Baby Raccoons in Bag of Mulch and Saves Their Lives","footnotes":""},"categories":[6985,5],"tags":[32,12409],"class_list":["post-2185377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wildlife","tag-florida","tag-raccoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2185377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}