If I understand my state’s process correctly. The raccoon will not be returned. If she can be released into the wild, she will be. If she can’t, she will be sent to a “permitted rehabilitator” which will try to prepare her for eventual release. If the rehabilitator determines that she will never be able to be released, then she will either stay at the rehabilitation facility permanently or be turned over to someone with a special educational license to be used in a classroom or other teaching facility.
I think the nearest facility to where this guy lives is an organization called Walden’s Puddle.
