Raccoon Attack Sends Woman to Hospital (Make that pack of Raccoons)

ABC News ^ | 7/11/2012 | Molly Maddock

[Blackirish]

A Washington state woman suffered 16 puncture wounds and over 100 lacerations after being attacked by a pack of raccoons. Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Lee was jogging on a trail near her Lakewood home when her dog spotted two raccoons and chased them up a tree. “I went over to pick up the leash and head home when three other raccoons just charged out of the grass straight for me.

[Ellendra]

A few years ago when I took a trapper’s safety class, coon pelts were going for around $20 each. Haven’t checked prices in a while, though.

[goat granny]

Once on the farm I got a possum in the live trap. Son shot it and I skinned it and sent it off with some goat hides to be tanned...Possum if you had enough would make a nice jacket. It would take quite a few...

[Beagle8U]

So far this spring I have shot 22 coons in my yard or on my deck. Only one of those was young of the year.

My property is infested with the worthless bastards. There must be hundreds of them back in my woods, one night I shot 4 of them.

They tear up the bird feeders and rip up the lawn digging for grubs. There seems to be no limit to how many there are because every morning you can see what they were into the night before.

I've tried to get someone to hunt or trap them in the fall, but they never show up. All anyone does anymore is deer hunt around here.

[Lakeshark]

Darks is involved with this somehow......

[WomBom]

Thanks for the smile

It’s been about a year since my mom passed away... She used to say fox in sox to get me to laugh when I was little.. Not sure why or where it came from but, It brought a smile to my morning.. Thanks.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***On the farm I had a coon find a way into the coop, killed about 7, ate one right down to the skeleton.***

Several years ago I noticed a large amount of feathers and blood in my hen yard when I went out to open the pen up.

I could find no way anything could have gotten in the house to kill a chicken, and the hens were not spooked at all.

Next morning I noticed fresh guts in the yard and a close inspection found no way a coon could get into the hut, and the hens were still not spooked.

Then I looked closely inside the house and saw lots of blood in one area.

There was a 1 1/2 inch gap between the roof and the wall for air circulation. A close inspection of the outside of the hen hut in that area showed lots of scratches in the wood. I then figured it out.

The coon had learned to jump up the side of the hut, reach through the 1 1/2 space, grab what he could and pull the chicken through the opening. The other hens inside did not even notice one of their own was gone.

I have since closed up those air openings.

[Starstruck]

Had that album plus Burnt Weenie Sandwich.

[meyer]

This is why I carry my Ruger LCP when I’m out running. Well, actually, I’m more worried about dogs though I have yet to encounter a really mean one.

[MrB]

I believe a Pyrenees would solve your problem.

(”Pyrenees”, not “Pekinese” - just to clarify)

[Beagle8U]

Not unless they can climb trees. All of my property is woods, even in the yard they are only a short distance from trees.

[Blackirish]

They’re really smart. We used to have one that would get on our roof, get in the attic, open the slats of the ceiling fan, hang there till his fingers got tired, plop on carpet, hit kitchen...eggs...peanut butter...milk...total destruction. My Dad shot him in the garage with a 12 gauge. I was only a kid at the time I kinda felt bad for the little guy. He was just so smart and bold.

[goat granny]

They sure are smart.....Another time when I went out to the garden, some creature had pulled down the ear of corn without breaking it off the corn stalk....It ate only 1/2 of each ear..had pulled back the corn covering only about 1/2 way....When I talked to my neighbor about it he said thats an old coon trick...with the type of paws coons have they can pull back only that far, not strong enough to totally shuck the ear and cannot pull it off the stalk...it had its full tummy after about 7 stalks of corn. Glad that nasty critter left us some corn......:O)

[goat granny]

I went to your home page and your painting are lovely. Also your kitty...you are quite a talent....One of my granddaughters got her degree in fine arts from the U. of Michigan and has had several shows and sold a few of her works. She does some amazing things with old Polaroid pictures and working them into her work and you would never know the Polaroid's are photographs....I love her work also. Your horse and colt are lovely also.....Have you used your blacksmith talents to make a sculpture. Love how your home shows your works.....GG

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I have five new paintings I will be entering in the local fair next month. Then I will post them on FR.

I haven’t made any horseshoe sculptures but I do have lots of horseshoe hangers all over the house to hang my hats.

And I got a new kitten. Someone abandoned it in the driveway of abandoned house near here. I will be taking her in to the vet in an hour to get her first shots.

[Borax Queen]

He so is! Just like he built a Starbucks in a funeral parlor (I saw nully blaming Darks on some other thread). LOL

[Darksheare]

Hey, I’m involved in sudden possumings.
But raccoonings?
Ehh.. that may be Derlly’s territory.

[null and void]

If they can’t capture and take the heads in for testing of every raccoon that bit her she is in for Rabies shots. But those are not the horror they once were. The injections are given in the shoulder and not the abdomen like 20 or 30 years ago. Still painful but far better than going through one of the worst imaginable ways to die.

She'll need the shots. They'd never be sure they got the right raccoons.

They were all wearing masks...