{"id":117036,"date":"2025-09-05T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117036\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:25:10","slug":"kentucky-nurse-performs-cpr-on-drunk-raccoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/117036\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Nurse Performs CPR on Drunk Raccoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A nurse in Kentucky had an extraordinarily unusual day after finding a family of raccoons in a dumpster, including a baby raccoon who was drunk and passed out. Misty Combs of Letcher County explained to Lex18 that one day last week, she and her colleagues spotted a stressed raccoon in the parking lot. Following it to a dumpster, they found the racoon\u2019s babies, along with water and fermented peaches likely belonging to the Letcher County Health Department\u2019s neighbor, the Kentucky Mist Moonshine distillery. \u201cI was like, \u2018We have to get them out!\u2019 It was the motherly instinct in me because I saw that momma and she was trying so hard to get her babies back and she didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d Combs explained. After rescuing one baby, Combs found a second face down and passed out after drowning in the liquid at the bottom of the dumpster. She began performing CPR and succeeded in reviving the raccoon, who was then taken to the local vet and given fluids. Once the baby had sobered up, it was returned to the parking lot, where Combs released it back into the wild.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lex18.com\/news\/covering-kentucky\/letcher-county-nurse-revives-drunk-raccoon-found-in-dumpster-with-cpr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at Lex18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nurse in Kentucky had an extraordinarily unusual day after finding a family of raccoons in a dumpster,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[773,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-117036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-kentucky","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}