{"id":13984,"date":"2025-07-16T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13984\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:10:12","slug":"raccoon-hoarding-cleanup-ongoing-in-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/13984\/","title":{"rendered":"Raccoon hoarding cleanup ongoing in Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FERGUSON, Mo. \u2013 Wildlife crews have made progress in their cleanup efforts at a home in Ferguson that has been inundated with raccoons and trash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOX 2 obtained video footage over the weekend showing wildlife crews capturing about four raccoons and two possums.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis house is infested. I know when (crew members were) moving the debris and furniture, (the animals) were running wild; it was like 8 or 9 of them,\u201d said Robin Jackson, who lives next door to the infested home.<\/p>\n<p>In a call for help, Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/raccoon-infestation-hoarding-prompts-city-action-in-ferguson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contacted <\/a>FOX 2 last week, saying she was fed up with the junk piling up at her neighbor\u2019s house and animals roaming free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one wants to come visit\u00a0me. Every time someone comes over here, they are here for a minute and they are leaving,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Ferguson confirmed with FOX 2 on Monday that it reset traps across the home as a precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents told FOX 2 that while the front yard is clear, the backyard is still overgrown with tall weeds and trash. They believe the backyard is a hiding place for some animals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s horrible and it\u2019s getting worse by the year. It\u2019s been growing constantly,\u201d said Marcus Macon, another neighbor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FOX 2 made multiple attempts to reach out to the homeowner for a comment but never received a response. Instead, the police were called and a disturbance report was filed.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Ferguson says it\u2019s working to resolve the matter and is waiting for wildlife crews to clear the home.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FERGUSON, Mo. \u2013 Wildlife crews have made progress in their cleanup efforts at a home in Ferguson that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[13481,13482,13483,6747,617,79,7645,13484,13485,201],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-follow-up","tag-hoarding","tag-infestation","tag-missouri","tag-raccoon","tag-science","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-county","tag-trash","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}