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RACCOONS ATTACK COUPLE, DOG IN SAN FRANCISCO
ABC7 ^ | 8/21

Posted on 08/30/2015 10:28:31 AM PDT by nickcarraway

In San Francisco's Richmond District, a couple was attacked they say by a pack of raccoons and if it weren't for a neighbor who came to their rescue, they believe they might have been seriously injured.

Many neighbors in the area say they don't like going out after 11 p.m., not because they worry about getting mugged, but because they worry about a confrontation with raccoons.

Patty Upsavs says she and her husband went out Monday night to let their dog get one last walk and that's when a raccoon pounced.

"So I started swinging the dog around trying to get it off," Upsavs said.

Then a pack of raccoons attacked.

"And then I got another one on my other leg. And so at this point, I'm in the middle of the street and I look up to see, 'Where is my husband? How come he's not helping?' And I look and he's throwing... raccoons are just jumping on him," Upsavs said.

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TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: raccoons; racoons; wildlife
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To: libbylu

Not necessarily.
We had a similar happening here.
It was early morning and my granddaughter’s dad had just arrived to take her to sigh up for college.
As she started out the door she was rushed by a huge raccoon!
It even kept trying to get through the closed storm door and we could see several more running around behind her.
It scared her pretty badly and she wasn’t about to try getting out that door and daddy was honking, unaware of what was going on.
I finally persuaded her that I would keep them “interested” and to go out the back door.
Needless to say, but the next night I put out some “bait” and the momma and a couple of the near-growed young’uns won’t be doing any more threatening.
The rest seemed to have got it and found somewhere else to hang out..


41 posted on 08/30/2015 1:28:28 PM PDT by bog trotter
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To: bog trotter

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=video+raccon+dance+with+hillbilly&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003


42 posted on 08/30/2015 1:42:49 PM PDT by Therapsid
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To: nickcarraway

This is why we have to do something g about guns NOW!


43 posted on 08/30/2015 1:46:15 PM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: PAR35

Well, where I’m from, Mama taught us kids a little nursery rhyme.

A shiv is always your best friend
Cause shanks will fail you in the end.

You was probably hearing about Goldilocks and Jack And Jill when we was rumbling with raccoons and possums who was trying to shiv us.


44 posted on 08/30/2015 1:57:08 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: RegulatorCountry

Years ago before I went into WWII we had a neighborhood baseball team that moved around town playing other teams , no adult interferences at the time. One day we cornered a raccoon under a black pastor’s porch and killed it. The pastor suggested we take the raccoon to one of his congregation on our way to the main park for a swim. We took the dead coon to the man who said he would cook it and invited us to stop by when returning from the park. We did just that and the man gave us a taste of southern cooked coon. As I recall it was very tasteful.


45 posted on 08/30/2015 1:58:03 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: nickcarraway
"So I started swinging the dog around trying to get it off," Upsavs said.

Hmm.. Sounds like you need to look into getting a proper dog, if the raccoons aren't scared of the little ratdog you have...
46 posted on 08/30/2015 2:31:24 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: PAR35
Ice pick would be a shank, not a shiv. Where I'm from, Shanks are metal, Shivs are non-metallic.

Hmm.. My understanding has always been that shiv is a noun, and shank is the verb form. (Not including the meat cuts.) You shank someone with a shiv.
47 posted on 08/30/2015 2:34:00 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: nickcarraway

Owner Records Dog Enjoying Playtime With… A Raccoon!
http://buzzgoodie.com/owner-records-dog-playing-with-raccoon/


48 posted on 08/30/2015 2:37:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Svartalfiar
Hmm.. Sounds like you need to look into getting a proper dog, if the raccoons aren't scared of the little ratdog you have...

A real dog, I like that, my puppy is 140# and raccoons aren't the only things that are scared of him.

49 posted on 08/30/2015 2:38:14 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: DJ Taylor

As in the Frisco ‘Fighting Coons’?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/640209/posts

So that’s why they repainted the water tower over there.


50 posted on 08/30/2015 2:41:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: minnesota_bound

Wow. I guess they somehow domesticated him.


51 posted on 08/30/2015 2:47:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RegulatorCountry
And they`re clever, I`ve tried bungee cords to seal my garbage can and those bass-turds keep finding ways to unlock. I thinking of placing a 'special treat' in the can for them: 'Go ahead rocky raccoon, it`s yum, yum, good!'
52 posted on 08/30/2015 3:08:13 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Mastador1
Well that`s San Freaksisco but I live close to a county park w/marsh so if a pack of the big trash fed bassturds that live around here attacked, you`d be hard pressed without a CCW, 140 pound dog or not.

But I should think a minimum of one .380 a piece would be enough.

53 posted on 08/30/2015 3:22:08 PM PDT by nomad
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To: goat granny

Years ago, caught a pair with cat traps that were living under my aunt’s farmhouse. They were tearing off the siding. Big boar with one eye missing and a smaller female. Boar was a nasty one. Animal Control picked them up, ostensibly to release in the mountains. They way the talked, sounded like they were going to use them in hollow log fighting (Georgia).

Raccoons on the DoD base at which I work as a contractor. Feds won’t do a thing to control them. They’ll lift the lids on the dumpsters and dive right in.
If I leave after dark, often will see a boar munching away. He won’t even move as I walk by.


54 posted on 08/30/2015 5:55:45 PM PDT by twister881
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