What do you do if you see your cat playing with a (probably rabid) raccoon in the garden?

Answer 1

Throw something to scare the racoon away, but don't hit it. Take your cat to the vet for a shot and inform your local spca of the possibility of a rabid racoon in your neighborhood. I recommend letting them deal with the racoon, because in some provinces in Canada, and some state in the U.S., it is illegal to shoot the racoon yourself. I don't know what the law is where you live, so if you let someone trap and test it, you avoid potential legal issues.

Answer 2

If you have good aim, a weapon permit, and live where it is safe to fire a gun, yeah shoot the varmint, chase the cat away from it and haul the carcass to your vet or call animal control to get it checked for rabies, while keeping your cat confined. Unless of course it's had it's rabies vaccination. Still might want to keep it confined in case the raccoon dose test positive as the vet may want to give the cat a booster.
If you don't have a gun with a permete or live inside a city limits (There's usually a law about discharging a weapon inside city limits or some such,), then the best bet is to grab a water hose and squirt them both. That way both should run, with the cat running toward your house and the varmint running away. If it runs toward you.... run faster 'cause then it probably would be rabid as that disease causes the poor beast to be very confused.
I sure hope your cat is vaccinated.

Answer 3

If your cat is current on shots it's probably going to be fine, call the vet and see about a booster shot. Call animal control so they can come trap the raccoon to check it.

Rabies is past on by fluids, either spit or blood. But you won't know if the cat caught anything if it is quarentined for 10 days. It can slowly work through the animals central nervous system taking much longer to get to the point where the animal becomes able to infect some thing else. It is at that stage where they quarentine dogs and cats if they bite a human or another animal, because if it was infectious at the time of the bite it will be dead within 10 days.

Do call and at least to a telephone conferance with the animals vet to get their opionion of the next step to take depending on the cat's vaccination history.

Answer 4

Is your cat vaccinated? If not call your vet asap for the vaccine, then you'll have to quarantine the cat for 10 days to watch for symptoms (seizures, rigid stance, foaming at the mouth).

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Jump in! ^^ a threesome is fun! ^^

Answer 7

Shoot the coon!!!!!!!!!