From the article LB posted -
Neighbor Michael Parks looked out his window when he heard screaming Monday and saw Lee on the ground at the edge of his lawn. He called 911 when he noticed she was wounded.
He said he believes the raccoons that attacked are the same ones that have been in the area since he moved there 17 years ago.
“They have babies and they grow up, ” Parks said. “There’s just kind of a continuous family of them.”
He said the animals are sometimes violent toward each other, but have never attacked humans to his knowledge.
“They just hang around here,” Parks said. “They come around and a couple of us in the neighborhood feed them.”
What the Actual??
Who wants raccoons in their neighborhood? Ugh. We have a lady who feeds the Canada geese. That's bad enough. Last year we had a litter of coyotes just across the river, and every time there was a siren - so like six times a day - the little coyotes would yip and howl for five minutes. The lady was feeding THEM too.
I don't get it. Why feed predatory animals? The lady even has cats that she lets out. I've known a couple people whose cats have been killed by raccoons.