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Startling video shows mom rescuing 5-year-old attacked by raccoon
ABC7 ^ | 12/5/2022

Posted on 12/06/2022 6:17:07 PM PST by LibWhacker

Startling surveillance video shows a raccoon attacking a 5-year-old girl in Connecticut.

Rylee MacNamara's mother heard the screams of terror and raced to the rescue. They didn't know if the raccoon was rabid - but it was aggressive.

The chaotic scene unfolded Friday morning in Ashford - just east of Hartford.

"I was going out to get on the bus and a raccoon was there and it tried to attack me," said Rylee.

Rylee's mom was swinging the animal around and warning neighbors to keep their distance. Then, using all her might, she flung the critter into her front yard.

"It didn't want to go off my leg," said Rylee.

"I thought maybe she slammed her finger in the door. I definitely wasn't expecting to see a raccoon wrapped around her leg," said her mother.

Rylee has a bite mark on her leg and her mom has scratches on her arm. Both are now getting rabies shots, but the encounter is one they won't soon forget.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: attacks; child; rabies; raccoon
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yep, they’ll kill a dog. Which makes them my enemy. When I was a kid, my dad worked on the railroad and met and knew a lot grain elevator owner/operators, many of whom owned hounds to keep the coons away. But those coons could hold their own and the injuries they inflicted on the dogs were pretty bad.


21 posted on 12/06/2022 6:44:22 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I hate raccoons. They’re cute when they’re little, but they grow up to be such aggressive little terrorists. I have to stand outside while our country cats eat dinner or the raccoons will run them off, even if it’s well before dark. They don’t care if you yell, growl or throw rocks at them.

They suck.


22 posted on 12/06/2022 6:45:24 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: Mears

He’s got some solid rules.


23 posted on 12/06/2022 6:46:58 PM PST by EEGator
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To: LibWhacker
Racoon: 0

Mama Bear: 1

24 posted on 12/06/2022 6:47:56 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: All
One of my neighbors once strangled a raccoon to death with his bare hands when he walked outside and found it glomped onto one of his little dogs. It was rabid; he had to get shots, his dog survived. That guy was total metal.
25 posted on 12/06/2022 6:48:36 PM PST by Izzatso
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To: EEGator

I have a big one, too, but I don’t carry that one with me everywhere. My little one would only make a raccoon more mad at me, likely. Although, like I said, the ones in the woods here are very scared of me. Not true of the possums though. They aren’t the least bit fazed by my presence.


26 posted on 12/06/2022 6:48:36 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: LibWhacker

I’ve warned people that racoons are dangerous, but seeing is believing.


27 posted on 12/06/2022 6:53:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

> Coons can be real vicious. <

Yep. Quick story: I worked for a number of years in an old steel mill. I never saw a single rat the whole time I was there.

But I saw a lot of raccoons rummaging through the trash bins. I was warned by the old timers to give those raccoons a wide berth. And so I did.


28 posted on 12/06/2022 6:53:37 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Yes, now the coon us alive to attack again.


29 posted on 12/06/2022 7:02:18 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: EEGator
That’s why I follow Gibbs Rule #9 - Always carry a knife.

Me, too. To keep the gun company.

30 posted on 12/06/2022 7:03:16 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: LibWhacker

Had a coon messing with my pond. Took me three days to trap him in a big live trap (he out witted me the first two times). Looked all cute until you got within 8 feet of the trap and he’d go full Cujo. I checked some videos and saw there was a 50-50 chance if you tried letting it go it would go after you so I settled the matter with a .22.


31 posted on 12/06/2022 7:10:55 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim ( )
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To: LibWhacker

I have heard coons will drown a dog.


32 posted on 12/06/2022 7:10:59 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: LibWhacker

vicious little beast!


33 posted on 12/06/2022 7:15:09 PM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: lastchance

Yes, I’ve heard they’ll gang up on a dog, drive him into some body of water (pool, pond, doesn’t matter) and not let him out. Sick little bastards!

Also, watch out for the roundworm parasite they carry! Bad news.


34 posted on 12/06/2022 7:26:02 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Seen a lot of coons, that one doesn’t look rabid at all. So did they catch it and test it or just give the shots to be safe?


35 posted on 12/06/2022 7:33:45 PM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: Democrat = party of treason

Yes, just to be safe. It took off after the girl’s mom tossed it out into her yard and wasn’t seen again.


36 posted on 12/06/2022 7:46:32 PM PST by LibWhacker
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37 posted on 12/06/2022 11:59:50 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: tballard56

Duke’s dog proof coon trap. I’m up to 61, so far this year.


38 posted on 12/07/2022 12:04:56 AM PST by stickandrudder (Another Bitter-Clinger! God-Family-Tribe - LGB-FJB brotherhood)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

This guy feeds raccoons. One day he ran out of hot dogs and all the police found were his shoes.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofp26_oc4CA


39 posted on 12/07/2022 12:22:40 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: tballard56

they’ve killed my dtrs chickens as well.....when they lived in town in an apartment building with tall trees all around, they would leave cat food out on their back porch because they thought the raccons were so cute.


40 posted on 12/07/2022 12:44:37 AM PST by cherry
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