A rare bald raccoon is in the care of a Nova Scotia shelter, where staff hope she’ll grow her fur coat – including a bandit-like, black streak across her eyes.
Hope Swinimer, the director of Hope for Wildlife, says the furless mammal has been named Rufus after a naked, squeaky mole-rat character in the children’s television show “Kim Possible.”
It turned out after closer examination Rufus is in fact female, but the name has remained as the pink-hued raccoon is proving to have an entertaining character in keeping with her cartoon namesake.