Poor Little gal

Yesterday John was working outside on building a new shelf unit for his office and he heard a scratching south coming from inside the garbage can. He lifted the lid and inside was this big Raccoon.

I think she went inside of the garbage can in the night to find food and was in there until the mid afternoon which by then was extremelly hot...It must have been at least 125 degrees in that can.

I was out when John first discovered her...but when I returned he had her out of the garbage and laying on the lawn trying to rehydrate her with some water but I think she was in some form of heat shock.

John called animal control and they came and took her to the ASPCA, so I hope they were able to treat her and not put her down.

Poor thing :(