ASHFORD, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - An animal control officer reported that a child was bitten by a raccoon in Ashford, Connecticut.
Video of the incident was captured by a surveillance camera Friday morning.
“I was going out to get on the bus and a raccoon was there and tried to attack me,” said Rylee MacNamara of Ashford.
Rylee said she and her mother, Logan, suffered some bite marks before her mother was able to yank the animal off her. The raccoon ran off into the woods after she threw it off.
“It was wrapping its arms around my leg,” she explained. “It really hurt.”
The family reported that both the mother and the girl went to the doctor’s office to get checked out.
There’s no word yet on if the animal was rabid.
“I thought maybe she slammed her finger in the door. I definitely wasn’t expecting to see a raccoon wrapped around her leg,” Logan said.
The two went to the hospital, received rabies shots, and were back home in a couple of hours.
State police said they responded to the incident to assist the animal control officer.
Animal control spent Friday morning in the woods trying to track down the animal, but it was nowhere to be found.
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When I was a little kid waiting for the school bus outside, my dog (a larger than average female German Shepherd) accompanied me. Back then, folks weren't as obsessed with dogs always being behind a fence or on a leash. She knew to hang around on the property till someone let her back in.
One day, while I was waiting for the bus, she wandered into the backyard for some reason. I turned around to see a huge Great Dane standing just a couple yards away and looking right at me. I looked around for my dog, but she was nowhere in sight. The Great Dane must have sensed fear, because as soon as I noticed it, it began to snarl and growl at me. Just then, like a bullet, my German Shepard darted past me and tore into it. It broke free, and ran at top speed down the street with my German Shepherd on its heels till they were both out of sight. A few minutes later, she came trotting back unscathed.
Just a trash panda that's been fed handouts until it lost fear of man.
I’m guessing rabies, hard to tell if the raccoon was partly paralyzed when it moved on but it seems like it coulda tore them up worse if it was firing on all it’s cylinders.
That mom rocks 😎 I hope the kid gets over it. Shots for both underway I’m sure, IIRC they ain’t in your stomache any more.
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Just a trash panda that's been fed handouts until it lost fear of man.
I’m guessing rabies, hard to tell if the raccoon was partly paralyzed when it moved on but it seems like it coulda tore them up worse if it was firing on all it’s cylinders.
That mom rocks 😎 I hope the kid gets over it. Shots for both underway I’m sure, IIRC they ain’t in your stomache any more.
Just a trash panda that's been fed handouts until it lost fear of man.
I’m guessing rabies, hard to tell if the raccoon was partly paralyzed when it moved on but it seems like it coulda tore them up worse if it was firing on all it’s cylinders.
That mom rocks 😎 I hope the kid gets over it. Shots for both underway I’m sure, IIRC they ain’t in your stomache any more.
I think you're right, I've seen them fight coondogs and they can do some fighting, lightning fast and are constantly twisting clawing and biting the dogs. No healthy wild coon could be held like that, although Mom might have had an adrenaline grip kicking in.
I’ve had to shoot a couple of possums with my Sheridan this year. Hard to kill. Put two in the last ones head. Not sure how long it took to die. Buzzards got it the next day. Nothing left in the yard but skin and bones.
