This dumpster-diving raccoon got trashed.<\/p>\n
When Kentucky nurse Misty Combs headed into work at Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, she didn\u2019t expect one of her patients that day to be a wild animal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had some pretty crazy days on the job, but nothing like this,\u201d Combs told local news outlet Lex18<\/a>.<\/p>\n Combs scooped out the first raccoon with a shovel. Courtesy Misty Combs<\/p>\n Combs and her co-worker reportedly heard a ruckus happening near the dumpster in the parking lot and noticed a panicked raccoon attempting to rescue two of her pups trapped inside. <\/p>\n \u201cOur health department is right beside Kentucky Mist Moonshine, a distillery, and they had put some fermented peaches in their dumpster, and I guess the baby raccoons had gotten in the dumpster and they were stuck,\u201d the longtime nurse explained.<\/p>\n The RN\u2019s \u201cmotherly instinct\u201d kicked in, and she knew she had to get the babies out of the dumpster.<\/p>\n \u201cI saw that momma and she was trying so hard to get her babies back and she didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d Combs told the outlet.<\/p>\n She grabbed a shovel and scooped out the first baby raccoon, who ran to its mom \u2014 but the second raccoon was face down in the bottom of the dumpster, which was filled with water and moonshine-soaked peaches.<\/p>\n Combs grabbed the raccoon by the tail and pulled it to safety, realizing that it was unresponsive.<\/p>\n Combs performed CPR on the unresponsive animal. Lex18<\/p>\n \u201cEverybody around was like, \u2018It\u2019s dead, it\u2019s not breathing.\u2019 It had drowned, and it was full of water; you could feel the water, so immediately, I just started doing CPR on it,\u201d Combs shared.<\/p>\n