Posted on 12/28/2024 5:17:29 PM PST by george76
The raccoon tested negative for rabies. Officials do not know how it got into the home..
A child was hospitalized after a raccoon attack inside the family's home...
The incident happened on Monday in Cassia County after the child's mom had just returned home with the infant still in the carrier...
The mother then heard a loud noise in the home and ran to the infant to find a raccoon attacking him..
“The mother found a raccoon attacking her infant. She was able to grab the animal to stop the attack,” ..
The child was taken to the Cassia Regional Hospital and then transferred to a hospital in Salt Lake City for further treatment,..
After the hospital drop-off, 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 tested negative for rabies. Officials do not know how it got into the home.
DOGGIE DOOR-—BETCHA
Imagine what the reaction at school will be when this child says, “I was attacked by a coon!” The admin people will have vapors!
We have raccoons in Spokane too. I feed an outdoor feral cat on my deck and in the summer, raccoons like to come up and steal the food. A whole family of them arrived one evening, and I shouted and tried to chase them with a broom. A couple of the babies ran away but the mother stayed and would have attacked me if I didn’t have a that broom and a loud voice.
Scary. They attack cats too and, of course, have rabies.
I have the occasional coyote in my yard.
Raccoons can get into the home sometimes through rotten eaves where they often nest to have young. Or pet doors. Or dryer vents, chimneys, etc.
Baby is made of meat. Raccoons absolutely love meat. Usually live ducks, geese and chickens are their prey, but to a raccoon accustomed to the sights, sounds and smells of people’s neighborhoods and digging in trash for pizza and chicken bones, a helpless baby would qualify as dinner and be a lot easier to take than a goose.
People need to quit feeding feral animals, it only increases the numbers of strays, makes them dependent and vulnerable to harm, and worse, creates uneccesary conflict between wild animals and humans, wild animals and domestic pets, and even problems between neighbors.
Yes when their hides were worth something.
Trappers took care of a lot of them.
Now I just catch them kill them and throw them in the woods.
That is why we have ammunition manufacturing plants.
A moose bit my sister.
We had a raccoon that was coming in through the pet door for our cats into our garage at our previous house.
We kept a can of dry cat food in the garage.
My daughter came home late one night opened the garage door and the raccoon came out.
Scared the crap out of her.
I bought one of those haveaheart traps and baited it with cat food.
The next morning there were two young racoons in the trap. Drove them about ten miles away and let them go.
I proceeded to catch another five over the next couple weeks.
I never caught Mama until that November.
I took the carcuss of the turkey and used it for bait.
Found Mama Raccoon in the trap the next day.
Boy was she pissed.
I dropped her off a good hour drive away.
“Relocating” pest animals yourself is a crime in some(all?) states. A hefty fine if the game wardens catch you.
And it is just dumping your problem on someone else....now if you relocate the pest to a rewilder k
it would be poetic justice.
Officials do not know how it got into the home.
Honey you sure that doggie door is safe?
Oh yeah only a dog knows what it’s for.
Exactly WHY did you have a racoon in your house?
Smelling of yummy food and a live being that jumps suddenly and makes noise and wiggles? Wild animals tend to act “wild” when they are around babies of another species.
It got in,uninvited.
Raccoons can open unlocked door ,tear through window screens ,and squirm through small spaces.
One literally tore through the vinyl floor and the particle board flooring.
Bring back raccoon coats and slligator shoes.
I got bitten a few times, but I was the one doing the “attacking.” Never had one come after me.
Years ago I shot a raccoon in my pajamis. How he got there I don’t know.
When I started trapping in 1968.
5 to 20 for a coon was common.
By the early 80’s 25 to 40.
Now you can hardly give them away.
Lots of good memories running a trap line.
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