Raccoons - Rescue, Rehab, Raising, & Release

 Among the wildlife on land and sea who have figured large in the daily lives and work of On Wings Of Care volunteers, those who have loomed largest by number since 2003 have been raccoons.  While our refrigerators and freezers remain stocked with the ingredients to simulate mother's milk for most mammals ranging from mice to black bear, the volume of our regular orders for raccoon formula rivaled those for most other animals combined.  It all started by accident when a pair of week-old raccoon babies were handed to us in a parking lot high up in the San Gabriel Mountains, where they had been found cold and nearly dead.