• ‘There’s still a stigma’: UK raccoon rescuer on mental health, animal wit – and not startling skunks

    ‘There’s still a stigma’: UK raccoon rescuer on mental health, animal wit – and not startling skunks
    Iain Jenkins, now leading the hunt for the Sunderland fugitive Meeko, says a breakdown led him to devote himself to animals“Saving animals pretty much saved my life,” says Iain Jenkins, a raccoon rescuer whose semi-detached home in Hartlepool appears as ordinary as they come but is anything but. This is a house that Jenkins shares with raccoons, a parrot and a friendly skunk and previously a whole host of exotic animals including a crocodile in the conservatory.Jenkins’ far-fro

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