Baby raccoon badly burned last month dies, police searching for suspects
A baby raccoon that was allegedly lit on fire and left in an Ontario park last month has died.
The months-old animal, dubbed Phoenix Rose, died unexpectedly last Thursday after a near-miraculous recovery, said Linda Moores of the Procyon Wildlife Centre in Beeton, Ont., north of Toronto.
“We are devastated,” she said. “When there’s somebody special that needs special care and everyone roots for, it was hard to take.”
In early August, a woman came across the raccoon in a park in Barrie, Ont., and took it to Procyon, a registered charity that rehabilitates wild animals.