Working with animals can be highly emotional and challenging, but it can also be rewarding and fun. Whether it’s working as a keeper at the zoo or volunteering at an animal shelter to ensure dogs are walked, fed, and loved, a career with animals is a surefire way to change lives.<\/p>\n
Jess, AKA @jesswildlifexx, is a Canadian Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation staff member who cares for dozens of different species every year. On December 13, she gave her viewers a sneak peek into the adorable greetings she gets from the rescued raccoons<\/a> every morning, and it’s safe to say that everyone’s jealous.<\/p>\n What adorable raccoons! Joyful greetings like this could make anyone smile, but it must be even more rewarding to Jess, who’s helped to care for the animals since they arrived at their wildlife rehab center a few years ago. Happy raccoons mean<\/a> a job well done!<\/p>\n Viewers admitted, left and right, to feeling FOMO after watching this video, but Jess ruined the illusion when she explained what the adopted raccoons were doing. They’re less interested in saying hello and more interested in frisking her for treats!<\/p>\n Related: Precious Dog and Raccoon Friend Prance Through a Field Together in Stunning Video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Commenter @timmiaaraq90 had everyone laughing even harder than the raccoons with their admission: “Every time I read ‘wildlife rehab,’ I always imagine animals that are addicts trying to sober up.” I’ve thought about that, too!<\/p>\n “Believe it or not, we have had animals come in that do require sobering up from ingesting stuff they shouldn\u2019t have,” Jess replied. Oh no!<\/p>\n Wildlife Rehabilitation<\/p>\n Sadly, many animals come to wildlife rehab<\/a> for serious illnesses and injuries. Most rehab residents are treated with the intention of returning to the wild, which is why it’s unusual for animals to form such close bonds with their rehabilitators. These curious raccoons, however, are permanent residents who interact with their caretakers more frequently than others do.<\/p>\n As Jess explained, this duo was rescued from the movie industry a few years ago. They’ve continued to be comfortable with human contact since moving to the wildlife rehab center, which is why they don’t hesitate to get up close and personal with their human friends.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc36<\/a>SIGN UP to get \u201cpawsitivity\u201d delivered right to your inbox with inspiring & entertaining stories about our furry & feathered friends<\/strong><\/a>\ud83d\udc3e\ud83d\udc3e<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by PetHelpful<\/a> on Dec 16, 2025, where it first appeared in the Pet News<\/a> section. Add PetHelpful as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working with animals can be highly emotional and challenging, but it can also be rewarding and fun. Whether…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":452648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[159,67,132,68,837,207654,207653,57613,95875],"class_list":{"0":"post-452647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-wildlife","13":"tag-wildlife-rehab","14":"tag-wildlife-rehab-center","15":"tag-wildlife-rehabilitation","16":"tag-working-with-animals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115733531386735855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}