Health officials have been scrambling to track down nine baby raccoons amid concerns about the spread of rabies.

Skedaddle President Bill Dowd says this marks two years in a row that they've discovered babies in a home earlier than usual.

The New Jersey suspect says he allowed three other caged raccoons to starve because he didn't know how to properly dispose of them.

Social media users celebrated the firefighters for liberating a "trash panda" that had become stuck behind bars.

Hayley Hesseln started Bandit Ranch Rehab in 2013. She and her volunteers take care of orphaned or injured raccoons.

Smiths Falls town council unanimously passed a bylaw that bans the feeding of wildlife.

"What we've concluded is they're everywhere in the city."

The attacks appear to be unprovoked, and even coordinated between the raccoons.

Police and firefighters easily picked up the four baby raccoons, but the mother tried to elude capture.

The deputy mayor in the New Jersey town where former Gov. Chris Christie lives has resigned after comparing immigrants to rabid raccoons on Facebook.