For Sheryl Bartone, it was never just about a raccoon. The Derby pizzeria owner, who runs Bartone’s Apizza, says she was ...

News of the seizure prompted hundreds of social media posts in support of the restaurant owners. An early media report also ...

Officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection removed a baby racoon from behind a ...

Sheryl Bartone kept the raccoon in a sheltered enclosure underneath her back porch for nearly six months, and planned to ...

Sheryl Bartone, of Bartone’s Apizza, said the raccoon was never inside the family restaurant. Bartone said the raccoon, which ...

The animal will stay with a licensed wildlife rehabilitator until it learns the skills needed to be released into the wild," ...

Animal was discovered as a baby. Owner kept out back to keep it alive. Was afraid to control animal control. Social media is ...

Owners said she took in the animal, making it an outside habitat under the restaurant’s stairs. They named it Lilah.

A retelling of a pet raccoon story (when it was legal) may be instructive. We found an abandoned baby raccoon in a hollow ...