A Florida woman is running a rescue from her house, but not a normal one — this one specializes in raccoons.

WTSP reports Marilyn Waldorf has been helping raccoons from her Tarpon Springs-area home for 12 years with more than a dozen staying with her. According to Waldorf, she is one of the select few people in the state to have the license to turn her home into an animal shelter.

"It sort of balances out my life," she told WTSP. "They deserve a life. There's a lot of dog and cat places that take care of the orphan babies, and I'm just one of the rehabbers that take raccoons."

Waldorf told WTSP that whenever she takes in a raccoon, she makes sure to prepare the animal to return to the wild one day. She added that she works with local trappers who bring her raccoons to treat.

"Middle of the night, she doesn't care, she'll get up at 3-4 o’ clock in the morning and say come on bring them up here, we'll get them all nursed up," Jeff Weldon, a trapper, told WTSP.

Waldorf said that while the raccoons are "very clean and "very smart," they don’t make good pets. "But I fill a need for the sick, the injured and the orphaned," she told WTSP.

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