Chicopee police called for possible rabid raccoon, found with broken leg

Chicopee police called for possible rabid raccoon, found with broken leg

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) - A raccoon trapped in Chicopee is recovering at the Urban Wildlife Rehabilitation after being found to have a broken leg. The Chicopee Police Department was called Tuesday night for a report of a possible rabid raccoon on Fairway Drive. Upon arrival, the office observed the raccoon and didn't believe that it was showing signs of distemper or rabies. The owner of a non-profit organization that provides medical care to inju…

Raccoons continue to spread in Germany. As reported by the German Hunting Association, 69 percent of the German hunting areas reported an occurrence in 2023.

In the northeast and middle of Germany, more than 90 percent of the hunting areas now report raccoon occurrences. The German Hunting Association calls for state support for hunting.

Raccoons are originally native to North America, but have also been found in Germany for several decades. Here, the invasive species is now spreading, as monitoring data shows. According to this, more than two thirds of the national hunting areas now live in raccoons. The losers of this development are rare amphibians and reptiles, which are on the menu of the predators [...] The article Raccoon spreads further in Germany appeared first on wisse…