As It Happens Kentucky nurse gives CPR to drunk baby raccoon she found drowning in a dumpster

When Misty Combs found a baby raccoon, drunk on fermented peaches and drowning in a dumpster, she knew she had to try to save it.

As a nurse, Combs was well aware of the risks of interacting with a wild animal in distress. She could get attacked. She could even get rabies.

But when she saw the little critter — sopping wet, unconscious and wreaking of booze as its mother paced frantically nearby — her caregiving instincts kicked in.

"I decided, hey, I'm going to save him," she told host Nil Kӧksal. "I would do it again."

'It smelled like it had drunk all night'

Combs works for the Letcher County Health Department in Whitesburg, Ky. That's where she was on Aug. 14, when people started to r

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