On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:43:53 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
wrote:

>
>"Gary" > wrote in message ...
>> "Paul M. Cook" wrote:
>>>
>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>> > The raccoon pulled both cats through the window. Don't know if it ate
>>> > Bali or what. We never found the body.
>>>
>>> Absolutely bizarre. Never heard of anything like it.
>>
>> Probably just her imagination. Her cats most likely jumped out of the
>> window and the lost one got hit by a car somewhere. Raccoons aren't
>> going to pull some fighting cat out of a window. Give me a break.
>>
>
>It is absolutely beyond belief. I don't know of any predator that would do
>this. Or could do this. I live with raccoons and have for decades. They
>are just not like that. Yeah they can attack pets but never like this.
>Cats are way too fast for them. Plus to break through glass implies a
>knowledge of glass which raccoons do not possess. They would not be able to
>figure out a screen let alone plate glass.

An army of racoons come through my barn most nights (my neighbor can
see the back of my barn from his windows and has often counted over
25), they never bother my two barn cats, they could never catch them.
There are all kinds of ferocious critters out there but the cats can
scoot thirty feet up onto the barn's catwalks in two seconds... large
animals can't get up there nor would much of the catwalks support
them. The critters that come through the barn are only looking for
cat food leavings, they aren't interested in the cats.