{"id":826993,"date":"2026-08-27T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826993\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:30:13","slug":"brewery-worker-unloading-supplies-finds-wet-baby-hidden-among-kegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/826993\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewery Worker Unloading Supplies Finds Wet Baby Hidden Among Kegs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this month, Steve, an employee at Sun King Brewing<\/a> in Indianapolis, Indiana, was cleaning a new shipment of kegs when he noticed someone tiny fall from a pallet.<\/p>\n

Steve gently grabbed the baby animal and brought him to his coworkers. Brewery staff puzzled over the visitor and eventually identified him as a raccoon.<\/p>\n

\"wetSun King Brewing <\/p>\n

\u201cThe reactions were, \u2018Is it a bat?!\u2019 \u2018Is it a rat?!,\u2019\u201d canning deck employee Rick Franklin told The Dodo. \u201cAfter closer examination, we knew it was a very young raccoon due to the markings on his tail.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"wetSun King Brewing <\/p>\n

Team members named the raccoon Wee Mac, after a popular beer at the brewery. They worried for the baby, who was clearly too young to survive on his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWee Mac seemed very listless, and he was so small that his eyes were not even open yet,\u201d Franklin said. \u201cAt first, we weren\u2019t sure if he was alive, but then he did start to move.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"wetSun King Brewing <\/p>\n

In need of expert help, Franklin contacted Re-Wilding Indiana<\/a>, and soon animal rehab specialist Ann Shirley arrived to take Wee Mac into care.<\/p>\n

\"rescuedRe-Wilding Indiana <\/p>\n

Today, Wee Mac remains with rehabbers at Re-Wilding Indiana, where he enjoys formula feedings every three to four hours. The little raccoon is already gaining weight, and, assuming everything goes well, rescuers plan to release him back into the wild next spring, once he\u2019s old enough.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone\u2019s quick thinking, Wee Mac is on his way to a much happier life in the wild.<\/p>\n

\"Raccoon<\/a>Raccoon Found With Head Stuck In Grate Desperately Holds On Until Help Arrives\u201c[We] could only imagine how exhausted and scared he was\u201d \ud83d\ude30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this month, Steve, an employee at Sun King Brewing in Indianapolis, Indiana, was cleaning a new shipment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3192,619,616,192,3191,79,615,613,201],"class_list":["post-826993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-encounters","tag-baby-raccoon","tag-daily-dodo","tag-environment","tag-maeve-dunigan","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-the-dodo","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826993","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=826993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}