> > Sounds positively rabid. If I were you, I'd call animal control.
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> Agreed. Ordinarily a raccoon would be skittish like any forest creature, although perhaps not as much as some. This kind of fearlessness and aggression sure sounds like rabies to me.

I have to admit, it sounds weird to here people talking about rabies as an immediate threat. I guess that's what comes of having lived most of my life in Britain.

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