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Raccoons Try to Eat Baby Girl Alive, Cops Say
CBS ^ | Nov. 4, 2010

Posted on 11/05/2010 4:03:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 11/05/2010 4:15:19 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A 9-month-old baby remains in critical condition at an Atlanta hospital after she was attacked by two raccoons.

Newton County Sheriff's deputies are investigating how the raccoons got inside the home and to the child, who was sleeping in a crib in the same room as her mother.


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TOPICS: Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: atlanta; baby; georgia; raccoons
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To: nickcarraway

My bother had a once cat, and one night he found a raccoon in the house, eating the cat food. Some time later, the cat never came home one night. Poor cat.

The raccoon came into the house. I highly doubt that these people had them as pets.


21 posted on 11/05/2010 5:09:25 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
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To: nickcarraway
these guys sure eat a lot....


22 posted on 11/05/2010 5:18:11 PM PDT by stylin19a (Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
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To: nickcarraway
One of my neighbor's dogs got attacked in broad daylight in the front yard of their house by a raccoon earlier this week. It would not let go. Another neighbor came out and had to beat it to death to get it to stop.

Must be something going on in raccoon society.

23 posted on 11/05/2010 5:24:34 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Government has no other end, but the preservation of property." --John Locke)
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To: goat granny
I will have to start calling you joeprobono the second...he sends me lots of coon pictures cause he knows I hate them...


24 posted on 11/05/2010 6:00:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

its called rabies and they are dirty SOBs


25 posted on 11/05/2010 7:03:08 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: JoeProBono; brytlea

Good target practice hope the silly woman doesn’t get shot during the process....Hi Joe, thats a new one..hope your doing well.....:O)


26 posted on 11/05/2010 7:10:25 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: JoeProBono

Is that Robert Gibbs?


28 posted on 11/05/2010 7:32:00 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: brytlea

That raccoon in your pic is missing a bullet hole or two.

I am with Goat Granny. Hate raccoons.


29 posted on 11/05/2010 9:25:28 PM PDT by Cloverfarm (This too shall pass ...)
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To: JoeProBono

That one is just too cute to make a bad comment on...


30 posted on 11/05/2010 11:31:42 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Cloverfarm

Yea, I have a friend on free republic that hates them also...been called a few names on a thread quite a while ago where I listed all the different ways to kill a coon...LOL usually city folk that think they are so cute how could anyone kill them...


31 posted on 11/05/2010 11:38:29 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Cloverfarm

Only took that shot because we rarely seem them in the daytime where I can get a photo. Plus they would take great umbrage if I shot one at the nature preserve. They would likely never let me come back and take photos. ;)


32 posted on 11/06/2010 9:37:26 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: nickcarraway
This is the reason I won't have a doggie door! Raccoons and Possums will come into your house if they can find a way.

We live in the middle of Houston near the bayou and back up to a ravine. We have armadillos, squirrels, Raccoons, Possums, huge rats, swamp rabbits, skunks and coyotes. My 3 Jack Russel Terrorist think they live in hunting dog heaven.

33 posted on 11/06/2010 9:51:15 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: goat granny

Yes, but notice...I take my own photos...hehehe :) I can only harass you with the one. But...I am now going to go on raccoon patrol and try to snap a few more. Just for you! :)


34 posted on 11/06/2010 11:40:22 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: goat granny
Did see this up a tree in the back yard one night! Possum Face
35 posted on 11/06/2010 11:41:44 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Jolla

Be very, very careful. There is a type of rabies that is epidemic in wild raccoons right now.


36 posted on 11/06/2010 11:42:42 AM PDT by djf (The word "concise" is too big!)
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To: Ditter

We had a doggie door into our screened porch in East TX but it had a solid barrier door that we could close up at night and we used it. My biggest concern was a skunk coming in in the middle of the night. I did NOT want to walk out and be greeted by one of those!


37 posted on 11/06/2010 11:44:15 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

Yes, shutting it at night, that would be the only way to use one. A friend woke up in the middle of the night (single woman) hearing a loud noise. When it quieted down she got up the courage to go and look, she found a drunk woman asleep on her couch. She had tried to beat the door down and when she couldn’t she slid in through the doggie door. If you had a burglar enter your house, it would be a small burglar. :D


38 posted on 11/06/2010 11:56:06 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Yeah, we were in the country but who knows. I had big dogs, so the doggie door had to let my 80 lb spinone in. One of my friends was telling a funny story the other day about a possum that got into their house thru their doggie door. Her dogs cornered it in the bedroom.
I wouldn’t have one that went from the outside into the house. Mine only went from the outside into the screened porch, so if something did get in, it was not getting inside the house, but the dogs could get into a sheltered area (mostly for when I was out there grooming, so I didn’t have to keep opening the door for them.


39 posted on 11/06/2010 12:03:37 PM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea
that is a weird looking coon. Pink nose....interesting.. close enought looking to a coon......BANG BANG...Dinners ready.....:O)

Once had a cookbook on how to prepare road kill, it was funny as the dickens..

40 posted on 11/06/2010 7:49:07 PM PDT by goat granny
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