YES, RACCOONS ARE DANGEROUS TO OUTDOOR CATS and other pets, and to humans. I just had a litter of kittens eaten because the mother was young and inexperienced and left them in an unsafe place, and we also just lost our rooster and a hen to the same smart marauder.
Raccoons are omnivores, like...
To jcat: Thanks for your thought and those articles! One of the articles was new to me - and a really good one to provide info about H1N1! I am not really worried about cat to human transmission of disease under normal circumstances, and I've lived with cats all my life, as well as all kinds...
I have two male tabby/Siamese cross and one Heinz57 female grey tabby, besides a (presently unnumbered) barn cat pride outdoors. I would like to start a thread about human to cat and cat to human disease. I am suspecting we possibly just had H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu, which I have...
When my PurrBoyz were teens and got very sick from a reaction to a common anti-worm medicine, they both began to get really dehydrated (they were half Siamese and sensitive to the med, my female Heinz57 Tabby was unaffected). They were still trying to eat, but refused to drink any water! Both...