{"id":246,"date":"2025-09-09T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/good-worldwide.go-vip.net\/upworthy\/2025\/09\/09\/cpr-on-raccoon-kentucky\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:04:00","slug":"cpr-on-raccoon-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodinc.com\/qa-upworthy\/2025\/09\/09\/cpr-on-raccoon-kentucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky nurse uses CPR to save a drunk dumpster-diving raccoon. Yes, really."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what they say: \u201cIf you give a raccoon<\/u><\/a> some fermented fruit,<\/u><\/a> it\u2019ll ask for cardiopulmonary resuscitation<\/u><\/a>.\u201d <\/p>

Okay, nobody says that. But they might consider it after reading this story! <\/p>

In Letcher County, Kentucky, nurse<\/u><\/a> Misty Combs and some coworkers spotted a panicked raccoon racing through the parking lot of the Kentucky Mist Moonshine, a distillery right next to her workplace. <\/p>

Then, they heard a commotion from a nearby dumpster. Lo and behold, it held two baby raccoons drunk on makeshift moonshine. <\/p>

\u201cThey had put some fermented peaches in their dumpster, and I guess the baby raccoons had gotten in the dumpster and they were stuck,\u201d Combs told local news outlet Lex18<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>

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Mamma Raccoon was trying to help her tipsy little trash pandas out, to no avail. That\u2019s when Combs\u2019 \u201cmotherly instinct\u201d kicked in.<\/p>

\u201cShe was trying so hard to get her babies back and she didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d said Combs. So, without skipping a beat, she grabbed a shovel and began scooping them out. <\/p>

The first ran straight to its mom. The second one, however, seemed to be in a much more dire position. He was lying facedown in the fermented peach water, completely soaked. Combs ended up pulling him out by the tail to find he wasn\u2019t breathing. <\/p>

\u201cEverybody around was like \u2018It’s dead,\u2019\u201d but Combs felt there was still hope, and \u201cimmediately\u201d began doing CPR on him\u2026certainly not something she had ever done in her 21 years as a nurse. But desperate times call for desperate measures. <\/p>

\u201cI’ve had some pretty crazy days on the job, but nothing like this.”<\/p>

Combs\u2019 coworkers filmed her as she began doing compressions on the animal’s chest, then flipping it on its side and slapping its back. Miraculously, the little critter began breathing again. <\/p>\n

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