Yes, you’ve read the headline correctly. When a nurse in Kentucky’s Letcher County scooped a dead-drunk raccoon out of a dumpster, she was desperate to save its life.

It had been a normal day on the job for Misty Combs, arriving at the Letcher County Health Department location in Whitesburg, just next door to the Kentucky Mist Moonshine distillery.

It’s difficult to imagine many other states where these two firms would share a parking lot, but it was there that last week Combs saw a raccoon darting back and forth, behaving strangely.

Combs told local news that curiosity led her to follow the raccoon to a nearby dumpster where the stink of alcohols was heavy in the air. The distillery had discarded some fermented peaches in the dumpster, and looking inside, two juvenile raccoons had gotten stuck.

“I was like, ‘We have to get them out!’”, she told LEX 18’s Megan Mannering. “It was the motherly instinct in me because I saw that momma and she was trying so hard to get her babies back and she didn’t know what to do.”

Combs got a shovel and extracted one of the two babies easily enough. But the second, lying in water which was probably flammable at that point, seemed unconscious.

It was dead drunk; drunk as a skunk, but fortunately for this tipsy trash panda, Combs’ provided another round—this time of CPR.

“It had drowned and it was full of water, you could feel the water, so immediately, I just started doing CPR on it,” Combs said. “The entire time, I was afraid it’d come-to and eat me up, and raccoons carry rabies so I was afraid of that.”

At first she began by patting its back, but shortly flipped it over and began administering chest compressions. Fortunately raccoon ribcages are quite malleable, and their hearts small, so Combs needed only one hand.

Incredibly, the plastered Procyon recovered, and was carted off with animal control to sober up at the local veterinarian. Combs went back to work, but had the honor of releasing the animal, whom she and her colleagues had named “Otis Campbell,” for the infamous Andy Griffith Show character, back into the forest behind the Health Center days later to reunite with its family and attend the next raccoon AA meeting.

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Combs wasn’t the only blonde-haired blessing to save a raccoon lately. A Canadian restaurant server on the sea-side of Lighthouse Pub in Sechelt leapt into the waters of the Pacific to rescue a baby raccoon that had somehow fallen in.

“The little raccoon was flailing on its back, screaming, and in a few seconds, the screaming stopped, and it went under. So, I went in,” Crystal Bakaluk told CTV News.

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“As I swam back, I gave him a few little pumps on the chest with my thumb, and he let out a tiny little cough, and then I handed him off,” she recalled.

That hand off was to the pub’s other staff, who doted more on the raccoon than their colleague, who went back to her tables, apologized, and continued taking orders in sopping hair and squelching shoes.

Mammals have to stick together.

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