Glinnum believes cats should be kept inside. Obviously if they’re an abundant food source, they’re going to be protective of that.” “They don’t seek out fights with other animals. “Raccoons generally aren’t confrontational animals,” she said. And mothers may keep their cubs around for up to two years. Raccoons can be very territorial and protective of food sources if they consider another animal a threat, they may look to run it off. But, it might be the feline’s own food, if it’s left outside. That easy source of food is probably not cats, she said. “They’re going to look for the easiest, laziest way to get food.” “They’re more opportunistic eaters,” she said. Raccoons are not typically predators, according to Breanna Glinnum, the animal care supervisor at the Langley-based Critter Care Wildlife Society. One client’s cat was “pulled through a fence and ripped to pieces,” Toplass said “The raccoons are just killing, eating what they want, and leaving the body there for whatever purpose.” “They’re leaving them quite a mess,” she said. Since the attack, Schneider learned her next-door neighbour had recently found a dead cat in her yard, and Toplass said there have been many more killings.Ĭoyotes have long posed an occasional threat to cats on Sumas Mountain, but Toplass said they tend to leave little evidence of their killing behind, preferring to carry their prey back to their dens.īut most cats killed in the last two years have been only partially devoured, then left to rot. He is now battling an infection, but might be considered one of the lucky ones. Oliver was missing for two days, before returning with three bite wounds – two on the back leg, one on the lower stomach. Schneider’s husband rushed out and chased the animals off, but the cat also fled.
Last week, three raccoons chased Leona Schneider’s two-year-old cat Oliver onto the patio of Schneider’s home and began attacking it. A security camera on the couple’s back patio captured the moments leading to the attack: Hendrix had been under a chair near the couple’s back door when a pair of raccoons raced up from beneath a nearby fence the cat fled, only for two more raccoons to join the pursuit from a nearby street. He’s recovering now, and remaining indoors. His face was lacerated and one of his legs had been broken in two separate places. He beat off the raccoons and rescued Hendrix, who was severely wounded. Her husband went outside and found four animals swarming her 15-year-old cat, Hendrix. Just a block to the north, Megan Giesbrecht was woken in early June by the sound of an animal fight outside her McMillan Place home.
Toplass, who lives nearby and whose own cat was killed in an attack last November, has posted in the window of the animal hospital a warning to local pet owners about the raccoon danger. In at least four recent cases, residents have intervened just in time, beating a pack of raccoons off of a cat, according to Janice Toplass, the office manager at the Glenn Mountain Animal Hospital, at the intersection of McMillan and Old Yale Road. Some of the felines have been killed and mostly eaten, their bodies left behind in grisly circumstances, while others have survived and made it to the local animal hospital in fragile health. A ravenous gang of raccoons is being blamed for attacks on dozens of cats in the McMillan area of Abbotsford over the last two years.
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