Child hospitalized after raccoon attack inside Idaho home, officials say

NBC ^ | December 28, 2024

[heavy metal]

that bites...

[CFW]

Maybe it has been living in the Christmas tree for two weeks. It was in the kitchen getting a snack when they removed the tree from the house.

[fidelis]

Kind of unusual to see a racoon attack someone inside their house. Happens once in a coon’s age, I guess.

[null and void]

Shame on you.

“He followed me home can I keep him?”

Shame on me.

[skr]

It’s a blessing that the raccoon wasn’t rabid but seems odd that a baby in its bed would be able to invite an attack.

[hoosierham]

Baby smelled of food?
I had to kill a raccoon inside my home as it became aggressive when tried to shoo it out the door.
Raccoons can inflict a lot of damage with teeth and claws.

[wildcard_redneck]

If you see a varmint within populated city limits - shoot it dead.

[Dogbert41]

They got these adorable opposable thumbs see…

[KarlInOhio]

the child's father along with a Cassia County Sheriff's deputy returned to the home, found the raccoon still inside and killed it, ...

The raccoon's final words were "Remember Fred!"

[wardaddy]

One attacked me once

A large boar

I cleaved him

Dale Hollow Lake TN

1996

[logi_cal869]

Something tells me that a pet door is involved...

[GaltAdonis]

I and some friends went camping in the late 1980s at Taughannock falls NY.
Waged a ‘war’ against those beasts fo a week.
We drove to the 5 & 10 Woolworths in Ithaca to buy a couple of ‘water UZIs’. High powered battery power water rifles. We showed those little beasts! Ha!

Lucky no one got bit or contracted rabies or anything.

[null and void]

If you see a varmint within populated city limits - shoot it dead.

It's illegal to discharge a firearm within most city limits.

[null and void]

Is there a surviving five and dime anywhere?

[wildcard_redneck]

It’s illegal to discharge a firearm within most city limits

Not where I’m from.l and, surprisingly, we have no coyote or other varmit problems. For less enlightened leftist parts of America, shoot, shovel and forget.

[wardaddy]

I still carry the scar tween thumb and index fanger

My secretary was mad at me for killing the coon

“But they’re so cute”

Can I say secretary ?

[SPDSHDW]

I had about half a dozen run into my neighbor’s house and proceed to attack her two dogs.

Took me and her Son in law to run them out of there. Had a pellet gun jam on me(could very well have been operator error, I was 15ish) so I started stabbing at one of them and smashing it with the Stock.

These bastards are bold around here because if you call an exterminator, they trap them and release them at the trail which is literally a fence away.
(Loony bin San Jose CA...)

[GaltAdonis]

Yes. Do a web search they exist.
But one in Ithaca, New York (where we bought the water rifles) appears to be no more.

[gundog]

That’d be a lot of shooting. Raccoons are everywhere, in my town.