"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:43:53 -0700, "Paul M. Cook" >
> wrote:
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>>"Gary" > wrote in message
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>>> "Paul M. Cook" wrote:
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>>>> "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.
>>>
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>>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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RQ278Kqd7s