The Brief

A woman managed to help a raccoon get out of a sticky situation after the critter got trapped inside a dumpster.

What they're saying:

"I love animals and nature," Kaitlin A Punches told Storyful, adding that her building’s maintenance man calls her when he finds raccoons so she can help.

Raccoon helped rescued from dumpster

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Punches happened upon a raccoon stuck inside a dumpster near her apartment complex in Comstock Park, Michigan, on Oct. 31.

She made several attempts to get the animal out, first by using a metal trash can to encourage the raccoon to climb out of the dumpster and then trying to lift it in a cardboard box.

Unfortunately, neither option worked.

Punches then retrieved a baby gate from her car which she placed inside the dumpster, so the raccoo

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