The injured raccoon was spotted in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Image:Cape Wildlife Center

Earlier this week, wildlife veterinarian Dr. Priya Patel and her colleagues at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable, Massachusetts had to deal with something they had never seen before: a raccoon with an arrow sticking out of its face.

But the saga really began several days before then, when an individual in Plymouth, Massachusetts called the Cape Wildlife Center to let them know that they had spotted the injured raccoon. The wildlife center team told the caller to contact the local animal control to apprehend the raccoon, who had no intention of making it easy.

It took animal control around one week to catch the trash panda . Patel, who is also the medical director of the wildlife center, tells Popular Science that she was a “very feisty raccoon,” even while inside of her cage.…