Mapache
About two months ago I was at the vets in Santa Rosalia, and there was this poor bloody raccoon, torn up from what I presume was a dog fight/attack.
It had been brought in by some rancheros who had found it. There was a sign hanging on his very small cage saying that it might bite, and therefore not to touch. Me of course could not resist looking closely, (plus my spanish is not good enough to understand “morder”) – the poor thing was just dazed and confused. He was living, torn up and bottled in a cage, albeit about 3′x2′x2′.
He was still there last month when I was there with a puppy dog who had its leg amputated (after being in a accident). So yesterday, Maria took our ginger female cat to Santa Rosalia to get it spayed, and a few hours later returned with him. Raccoon in Spanish is Mapache – and so that is what we have named him.
The vet has gave him to us as he knows us well and knows that we have a love for all animals. As Mapache can no longer be returned to the wild, he asked us to take him.. The vet has given him a clean bill of health, and will be getting us a permit to keep him legally.
Mapache on the move.
So yesterday I had to redo the mango aviary as it had been damaged in the last flood and Mapache now resides in there. I have still to make him a hide type box to live in, so at this moment he is living in the fork of the tree. I hope to tame him enough to be able to pick him up, but that will take time.
The pictures you see, I took of him while he was still in his cage and I did not know if he was wild or not. Don’t you love his mask?
All in all, an unusual pet. Just the way I like things, and I feel I am doing him some good. At least hopefully!
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