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Was hunting last nite my older dog treed when we squalled to find the coon it came down and jumped out my dog cought it on the ground and tore into it well it got away and there was a rotten tree beside the tree they treed in well the coon went in a hole that was about 3ft off the ground we looked in the bottom of the tree in a small split and could hear baby coons we could see that the momma had quiet breathing so i stuck my hand inthe hole and got her out we had to carve the split with a pocket knife enough to get my hand in to the baby coons so now I have to baby coons at the house and there eyes are not even open yet how can I take car of them to keep them alive I got small animal bottles and kitten milk mix from walmart any more help would be awesome please thanks.

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First thing, If you got a job, quit it and become a full time coon mom.

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Oh my.
Make sure you leave them on the ground or towel or whatever while you feed them. Make them stay on their bellies. If you try tonhold them like a human you will kill them.
Google "Feeding baby coons" and see what you find. Call DNR! They might know of someone who will take over for you to raise them.
Keep them warm.

I've raised pups like this before. Good luck. I would call to try to find help. SPCA might help too.

Good luck.

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l.lyle might be right about the job thing, but it might be done without giving up your job. Never have tried raising coons, but when I was little my dog bayed a possum behind the house one night, being I had my trusty BB gun, the fight was on, I would shoot it, Betty would grab it and shake it till I could get ready for the next shot. I don't remember if she got tired of shaking it or if I ran out of BB's, but it got quiet and I started hear pst pst pst, and got to looking what was making the sounds. We had run into a momma possum and had baby possums scattered everywhere. I gathered them up and took them in. I did manage to raise them, they were smaller than a mouse when I started .... but grew up to be POSSUMS !
You need to get a box to put them in, might use a heating pad in it covered with towels, to keep them warm. The formula that you have might work, a vet could tell you if there is a another one that might be better. You need to see what the mixture rate would be the best for them, it might tell on package. One bottle is probably all that you need to start out with, just warm between feeding. I think they are like pups, you need to take a cotton ball or small cloth, wet it with warm water and massage their bellies and rear so that they will eliminate their waste. That is the reason you might have seen dogs or cats licking the young ones, it stimulates the bowels and bladder, it's not to clean them, it's more to clean them out. I think they should be fed about every 2 hours or so, might go 4. But after they get their eyes open, and get to moving around you can try getting them on eating out of a dish.

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Well guys thanks for the help. I slepted them guys lastnite wraped up in a towel I could not get one of them to take the bottle so I called the wildlife officer this moring and he cam and got them he told me he was going to take them to a wildlife rehabilatater to take care of them I wish I could had kepted them but I was scared they wouldnt make it so I did what I thought was best for them maby now they will have a fighting chance.

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dixie, i know you wouldn't have bothered that mamma if you had known she was with babies. you did the right thing by digging the babbies out and finding help for them. you did good.

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You did the right thing.

Sometimes things happen like that. Atleast you did what you could. A lot of people would have left them to die.

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CH Broken Roads Southern Stylish Boom (Kentucky River Rowdy x Houses Lipper's Hope)
Broken Road's Rowdy Lil Miss (Kentucky River Rowdy x Houses Lipper's Hope)
Broken Road's Meabie I will (Lipper's Rooster x Missy)
Broken Roads IMA Boomer2 (UKC NATL GRCH GRNTCH Honest Abe x Broken Roads Southern Stylish Boom
~~~~~Watch out!~~~~~
They just might make an IMPACT!

and the girls...Punkin and Tater!

Gone by never forgotten ~ Fly high my beautiful angels
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~CH Toucan's Ugly Betty
~ CCH CH Southforks September Rain
~ Martin's Daisy JJ (what a beautiful litter you left behind)
~ Luke, the lab who brought us so many doves and ducks over the years
~ UKC GRCH,ACHA CH 2014 LWCH 2014 2 x's ACHA YOUTH WCH AKC CH AKC CH 'PR' Kentucky River Mundar ~ (Kentucky River Rowdy frozen semen) DNA Profiled ~ Fly high, old friend.

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