{"id":968802,"date":"2026-11-13T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968802\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:00:09","slug":"drunk-raccoon-who-passed-out-after-viral-virginia-liquor-store-rampage-helped-raise-290k-for-animal-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/968802\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk raccoon who passed out after viral Virginia liquor store rampage helped raise $290K for animal shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A raccoon that went viral last year for going on a drunken rampage inside a Virginia liquor store<\/a>\u00a0has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for an animal shelter.<\/p>\n

The trashed raccoon was discovered snoozing in a booze-induced haze by the toilet last December after helping itself to 14 bottles of alcohol in the Ashland ABC Store.<\/p>\n

The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter has since raised more than $290,000 from selling merchandise emblazoned with the masked bandit\u2019s likeness and the slogan \u201ctrashed panda,\u201d The Washington Post reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

A raccoon that went viral last year for going on a drunken rampage inside a Virginia liquor store\u00a0has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for an animal shelter. Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter<\/p>\n

After boozy raccoon<\/a> apparel sales skyrocketed, the county also began selling seasonal shirts, including a Halloween-themed \u201cTrick of Trashed\u201d shirt, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

The money raised from the merchandise exceeds the shelter\u2019s typical yearly donations of less than $20,000 by more than 14 times. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe never thought a raccoon would do this for us,\u201d said Jeffrey Parker, Hanover County\u2019s chief of animal protection.<\/p>\n

The influx of cash will allow the department to order body cameras for its eight animal protection officers to record evidence for investigations into animal abuse cases and complaints against officers. <\/p>\n

The influx of cash will allow the department to order body cameras for its eight animal protection officers. Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter<\/p>\n

Hanover County officials unanimously approved the new bodycams during a meeting on Oct. 28, and officers will start using them in January. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know when we\u2019ve owed a debt of gratitude to any animal as much as we do to that raccoon,\u201d board supervisor Faye Prichard said at the meeting, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

The department still has $140,000 saved from the raccoon sales and is considering creating an emergency fund to treat injured animals, Parker said. <\/p>\n

The infamous raccoon sampled up to 14 bottles of alcohol, including rum and moonshine. Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter<\/p>\n

After the infamous raccoon sampled bottles of rum and moonshine, officials transported it to the shelter to \u201csober up before questioning,\u201d and later released it back into the wild.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully he\u2019s living a good life somewhere,\u201d Parker said, \u201cand is being sober.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A raccoon that went viral last year for going on a drunken rampage inside a Virginia liquor store\u00a0has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3374,62896,330072,49,48,66,886,4137,323],"class_list":["post-968802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-alcohol","tag-animal-rescue","tag-animal-shelters","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-virginia","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}