You know that feeling of fighting sleep and gradually losing the fight? Well, so does this baby raccoon. She is living with three siblings under our shed and she was waiting for mama to come home. Mama was taking longer than expected.
She struggled to keep her eyes open for as long as she could and then finally subsided behind the horizontal beam. The mama raccoon had been up on our deck, lounging in the pool we put out for the raccoons every summer (it’s a 2 x 4ft underbed storage unit with water in it). She eventually returned and all was sweetness and light.