Thursday, March 15, 2012

County man catches a robber without its mask: Rare albino raccoon caught outside city

Conward "Red" Humphreys is used to finding fat, sneaky raccoonsraiding his chicken coop at night.

What threw him a couple of days ago was the white fur, glowing redeyes and missing mask of the animal that padded onto his property.

Humphreys on Tuesday found what seems to be an albino raccoon, arare white or off-white breed of the familiar creature often foundmaking a racket with garbage cans and pet food dishes.

Humphreys, who uses a cage to catch and release raccoons thatfrequently creep into his yard and dine on his chickens, planned torelease the strange and surprising creature back into the wild today.

He found it sitting in the cage late Tuesday …

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