Not all persons interested to get a pet are ready to make a traditional choice for a cat or a dog. Such nice and amusing animal as a raccoon exists. Presently it is quite real to buy a little raccoon in special nursery. But how to look after him? Whether it is possible to support this small animal in the ordinary apartment?
It is required to you
- - a lodge or a box covered by soft blankets;
- - basin with clear water;
- - a small bottle with a pacifier (if the raccoon is still small);
- - pans for food and water.
Instruction
1. Before making the decision on acquisition of a raccoon, you remember: this animal is much more active, than, for example, a cat. And the peak of this activity falls on night hours. Besides, at a raccoon more tenacious and quick fingers, almost like at the person. These small handles are capable of such tricks which will not even come to a cat or a dog to mind. Raccoons are very curious and inventive. The small animal with pleasure will open boxes and lockers, to pull out their contents and to study it, eating everything that will seem to it appetizing. He will not disdain and a garbage can contents research if such case turns up. So be ready that you should not miss after acquisition of a racoon, and on doors of cases it is necessary to hang up locks.
2. Buying a little racoon, prepare for him a snug and cozy home. You can buy for this purpose a suitable lodge or a stove bench in pet-shop, or to cover soft materials a cardboard box. The racoon will be also glad to a hot-water bottle with warm water. The kid can be fed with the divorced and sweetened cow's or goat milk from a small bottle. Grown up to a crumb raccoon it is possible to give also children's nutritious mixes.
3. As soon as the small animal becomes more senior, begin to feed up him crude and boiled eggs, pieces of boiled meat, fruit, nuts. Favourite delicacy of a raccoon - cookies. As these small animals are fans of purity, everything that they are going to eat, they try to wash in the beginning. Provide to your racoon for this purpose the special container with water. And treating him with cookies, choose grades which razmokat not at once. Raccoons are not choosy in food therefore you watch that the small animal did not pull down and did not eat something fried, salty, sharp or too sweet - such products are harmful to animals.
4. The grown-up raccoon needs to be walked that he surfed in the pleasure trees. It is very good if there is an opportunity to walk a small animal in a garden or near the seasonal dacha. In the apartment it would also be quite good to provide special short flights of stairs or ropes which the small animal could climb, realizing the natural natural requirement.
5. Be ready that in the winter the activity of your pet will decrease. In cold season the raccoons prefer to fall into hibernation. The dream at a raccoon superficial, the body temperature and pulse rate at it does not decrease. The small animal can wake up in the period of a winter dream and some time to be awake, and then to fill up again.