Reply #68: One of my cats got chased into the house by a raccoon..

[tonekat]

This was one afternoon last year. I was in the kitchen, and knew something was up by the BANG! of the cat door as Jello (14 pound solid black, all-weather cat, willing to take all comers) came roaring into the house. There, at the (locked on one-way for he who wears the device around his furry neck) cat door set into the floor level window, was a big light-colored raccoon, who obviously had been on Jello's heels. I held my foot against the cat door just in case, then went outside and shooed him off. It wasn't scared of me, went beneath our deck, I called animal control, but by the time the officer got there, he was gone. She reassured me that he probably didnt' have rabies, but rather, saw Jello as competition for food. We've had more than one in the house in the past, before we got the cat door with the passkey.