SEATTLE - Carolyn Magoon had just let her Maltese dog named Cooper out in her fenced in backyard when he and then she became the latest victims of a raccoon attack on Seattle’s Queen Anne Hill.
“I heard these horrific screams and I came running out and saw where the screams were coming from, and there was my dog. I could see his white underneath this huge raccoon underneath my table,” Magoon said recounting the ordeal.
Magoon was able to use her broom to get the raccoon to let go of Cooper and that is when the raccoon turned on her.
"It turned on me thinking I took away its meal,” she said.
Magoon’s story unfortunately is not unique in her neighborhood. Earlier this month, another woman and her dog were mauled by a viscous raccoon.
Magoon says wildlife agents told her there is nothing they can do. On the agency’s Web site, it suggests people keep their cats and dogs inside when there is a problem raccoon in the neighborhood.
But Magoon believes more should be done to corral the raccoons.
“Is it going to take a small child getting mauled before they do anything," she said.
