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DrMcMeow OP t1_jd0qjn8 wrote

At around noon on Sunday, on Post Road, a raccoon attacked a cat named Tuxedo.

The raccoon then moved, two houses down from the other, and attacked a man who was getting the newspaper. Animal Control says the raccoon came out from underneath his car and that he managed to get back in his house after the attack.

The raccoon then moved across the street again and got into a fight with the original cat.

A man driving by saw this fight, stopped his car, getting out to shoot and kill the raccoon. The raccoon will be tested for rabies.

Animal control officer Cliff Daigle was investigating this scene and passing out flyers, when a woman reported to him that she saw another raccoon with a baby raccoon.

This other raccoon attacked a German Shepherd in the area by a fence, with the raccoon on the outside of the fence and the dog on the inside.

A sheriff's deputy did not have a clear shot to shoot the raccoon because of the dog in the way and the raccoon then ran under a wood pile.

Daigle and the deputy started to take the wood pile apart but it was frozen solid, not allowing them to get to the raccoon.

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Antnee83 t1_jd0ydxu wrote

> This other raccoon attacked a German Shepherd in the area by a fence, with the raccoon on the outside of the fence and the dog on the inside. > > > > A sheriff's deputy did not have a clear shot to shoot the raccoon because of the dog in the way and the raccoon then ran under a wood pile. > > > > Daigle and the deputy started to take the wood pile apart but it was frozen solid, not allowing them to get to the raccoon.

Are we seriously gonna act like this isn't a Looney Tunes script?

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Themustanggang t1_jd3ribf wrote

Holy shit I was attacked by a raccoon the same way when working in NC. Came out from under my car and bit me.

We wouldn’t have gotten it if my buddy hadn’t sprinted out and shot the thing with his p90. Good thing we did too cause it tested positive for rabies.

Be safe out there y’all. Get the shots if you’re even slightly at risk.

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UncertainOrangutan t1_jd3ye9k wrote

Your buddy just has a P90 laying around? What the fuck?

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Themustanggang t1_jd46fwf wrote

Post Sample P90 and yeah welcome to military towns in NC haha. I’d say anywhere in NC but not everyone has the discretionary funding to be dumbasses like us.

Serious note though, 5.7 calibers are top tier pest control and home defense rounds. I’d highly recommend having one lying around over a shotgun for a litany of reasons.

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Sufficient_Risk1684 t1_jd3wp42 wrote

So they just left rather then setting traps? Or getting a maul to each the pile apart?

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darisaziez t1_jd10c1f wrote

Is the cat okay?

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Tpcorholio t1_jd10qgd wrote

Damn trash pandas kept getting into my trash. They even were able to open the cans lol. I had to put cinder blocks on the cans.

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tesaril t1_jd1fu5z wrote

I lived in downtown Portland during the raccoon crisis of 1984. I think we all remember that, huh?

So, At. John Street, and this mama raccoon keeps messing with my trash can on the third story, very unsturdy deck.

So I keep picking up the daily hijinks. I own a pretty big sword and decide, I'm done with this little nature's bandit.

So I get out my Conan-clone sword and set up at the sofa near the deck.... And I wait and wait.

So, this little pack of four baby raccoons trot up to our deck, this fat, pissy mama raccoon right up on them, and they approach my locked garbage cans and literally, unlock them.

I'm amazed. I just watch. They all eat, make a mess and leave.

I just couldn't attack them. No way.

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ketofluvaccine t1_jd2bd4j wrote

Bro when I was a kid we were warned by rangers in Acadia at Blackwooda campground that we needed to LOCK OUR DOORS or the raccoons would get into our vehicle.

My dad didn't believe that so he didn't. They opened our minivan at like 3 in the morning and shat everywhere I got in trouble for laughing to much.

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Tpcorholio t1_jd3qjwo wrote

Haha! Wow that was back in the days of Dave the Dogman lol. I think I remember the raccoon crisis. I live all the way up in Aroostook county nowadays so we always have issues with raccoons and other animals in the yard lol.

One time I was taking out my trash and heard a bear cub. I got the hell outta there cuz where there's a cub there's usually the mom lol.

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ChiefJedi207 t1_jd2eokt wrote

Is it just me or is every single rabies story based in Brunswick, bowdoinham, topsham area? Recency-bias I’m sure but still.

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RockSlice t1_jd2rzaa wrote

Can't confirm, but it makes sense for cases like this to keep cropping up in the same area. It means that there is a reservoir of the disease in the wild population somewhere nearby.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to vaccinate wild animals.

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Ebomb1 t1_jd317tu wrote

Yeah, reservoir population somewhere nearby.

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maine64 t1_jd1z8ls wrote

I'll save you, Raccaccoonie!

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otakugrey t1_jd6xkwe wrote

Oh, so it's not just my moms place?

Last summer a coon flew out from under my mothers porch and attacker her cats. I shot it and the cats were okay. But then all this winter two more of them her constantly hissing at her and baring teeth at her whenever she tried to use her porch. Now this?

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Zsensol t1_jd0tbk8 wrote

I'm tired of this 😴

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