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Surprise Visitors At Fox Hill Nursery

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Fox Hill Nursery recently found itself becoming a different kind of resource – a nursery to a raccoon family.

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August 5, 2022

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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Most of us may be familiar with Fox Hill Nursery as a gardening resource. But, it recently found itself becoming a different kind of resource – a nursery to a raccoon family.

Marlena Leonard has more on this story that started as a mystery, and now has a happy ending.

When Amanda Meyers returned to Fox Hill Nursery after a holiday weekend, she met quite the surprise – a baby raccoon.

Meyers called a friend who had experience raising raccoon kits, to take her surprise guest.

But to Meyers’ surprise, the story didn’t end there. Two weeks later, another kit appeared, but, unfortunately didn’t survive.

Then, early this week, her dogs alerted her to one more.

But, questions still remained – where were these raccoon kits coming from, and where was their mother?

The raccoon kits had been falling 30 feet from the roof and onto the shop floor, somehow unscathed. But with the doors locked up at night, the mother had no way to reach them.

So, Meyers hatched a plan to reunite them.

That night, they put the raccoon kit in a box and left it at the foot of the tree they had seen the mother come down.

As for the first raccoon kit, now named Dilly, she is safely in the hands of Meyers’ friend- bottle fed every three hours and she grows more adventurous by the day.