08/21/2026
I have gotten so many questions about what Skittle does all day long. So, a day in the life of Skittle……….
Skittle sleeps in a crate in my guest bathroom with a heat lamp. The whole room is pretty much an incubator. If you’re ever gonna lose a wild baby, it typically happens at night. They need to be sleeping in a pile with their littermates to maintain their body heat.
I wake Skittle up at 8:30 in the morning. If you’ve never awakened a racc**n from a hard sleep, you’re missing one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen. So much stretching and yawning!!! He gets his first bottle, I help him go to the bathroom (wet paper towels), I burp him, then he cuddles and loves in my lap for a bit.
Next he moves to a medium sized cage in my guest room. That has his sleeping purse, several stuffies, a baby sized croc from the dollar store. All things to help him start processing textures, colors etc. Typically, he immediately dives head first into his purse and goes back to sleep.
I wake him up at 12:30. He has to crawl out of the purse by himself and come to the open cage door and crawl into my hands. I take him back into the bathroom, sit on the floor with a p*e pad in my lap. Give him his bottle, p*e him, burp him and have a cuddle.
Then he goes back in his crate, and I have to sneak him out of the house without my 2 dogs and cat seeing him. Skittle has been in my house for 3 weeks and none of my animals know he’s here. Major subterfuge going on there!
After his second feeding, he moves over to the guest cabins. He stays there until 4:00. My largest cage is set up over there. It has branches, a hammock, a pan of water and toys. This is where he starts learning to be a racc**n.
At 4:00, I sneak him back into my house. Feed him and put him back in his cage with his purse. He goes to sleep in his purse immediately.
I wake him up for his last feeding of the day at 8:30 at night. He eats every 4 hours all day, then goes for 12 hours without a feeding at night.
Tomorrow is a big day. When I pick him up at the cabins at 4:00, I’m gonna take him to the creek and let him be loose for the first time! No idea what will happen, but I’m guessing lots of pics and videos to follow!
