A ‘cheerful’ raccoon curled up on a bookshelf at the Colorado Wildlife Office
A sneaky critter broke into a wildlife office and snuggled up on top of a bookshelf, a Colorado Parks and Wildlife video shows.
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Staffers heard a flurry of activity and discovered a raccoon snuggled into a box on top of a bookshelf — one it chose after exploring other offices, officials said on Twitter.
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“Keeping things exciting at @cpw_nwregion’s office in Grand Junction [this] morning,” the official tweeted. “After hearing the commotion, area staff found this raccoon curled up in his office. Before finding an office just right to keep him warm and dry this morning, the raccoon had several others. I searched someone’s office.”
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Video shows the raccoon doing its best to stay hidden and flattening its ears to show it wasn’t getting down from its nook willingly. A wildlife officer hooked the raccoon with a wildlife catching poleand scooted it right out the front door, where it takes off into the rainy outdoors, the video shows.
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The main Colorado Parks and Wildlife Twitter account retweeted the video.
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“Feisty as a raccoon on top of a bookcase, that one!” officials wrote in the tweet.
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In the comments, someone joked they didn’t think the treatment was very nice to the raccoon.
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“Y’all be nice to Ranger Rick!” they wrote, insinuating the critter looked like the iconic raccoon featured in the children’s nature magazines published by the U.S. National Wildlife Federation.
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