TRIGGER WARNING: You yourself may turn into a whiny weenie, if you feel awful, just awful watching racoons getting violently manhandled (racoon lives, I think)by a human defending his dog. Human, in said vid did not have a discussion with said racoon in order to calm him or her down with the hopes that the racoon would peacefully have a change of heart and stop sticking it’s disease ridden fangs and nails into Toaster the dog. Nor did he just stand by and take cell phone pics for the police report. He got directly involved. Watch at your own risk. /s
That dog is about as brave as mine is. High tailed it out of there.
And there is no gentle way to toss a raccoon. My guess is that the raccoon bounced quite nicely and wasn’t even bruised. That thick fur makes for excellent crash landing padding.
You have a very good point. From the video though it looks like about a 10 foot drop with maybe a little more velocity from the thrower. Considering the angle of the throw it looks like raccoon would most likely just bounce a little or skip on the pavement. My guess is that the raccoon just flipped to its feet and took off with nothing more damaging than a bad mood.
See, and I’m thinking the dog was the smart one. Good on the guy for rescuing his dog, but apparently going down the stairs after he tossed doesn’t seem like a good choice.
Presumably the dog had already had a rabies vaccine, but wouldn’t Mr. Rose need to be vaccinated after that encounter just to be on the safe side? Assuming the raccoon survived and couldn’t be directly tested, that is, which seems very likely (those things are tough little creatures).
Yanno, he could have put in the description whether the raccoon ran away or not after getting Hulk smashed. I’m a little annoyed that millions of people have been left to wonder.
Once upon a time I had a small dog, and she wanted to kill every living thing that was not a member of our immediate family.
We lived next door to a guy who had two husky-wolf hybrids. They were pretty mellow, and generally ignored the omnicidal 14 lb terrier poodle cross. We kept the fence up pretty well, and all was good.
One day she found a way under the fence. I was out in the yard at the time. She lunged into one of the other dogs and bit its leg, with the obvious intent of tearing that off so she could get to its throat.
I vaulted over the fence, grabbed her and threw her back into our yard, and then and only then did I realize what a bad idea it was to throw myself into the territory of more than my weight of recently attacked pack carnivores. Had they been pissed off about the whole thing, I would at best have some interesting scars.
We all looked at each other for a while, the general message being “Did that just happen? Really? Weird, huh? We all cool?”, and they let me leave through the gate (handy, as I have no idea how I got over the fence in the first place).
You will do some deeply weird stuff when your dog is in danger.
Of course, your dog would probably have some choice words for a bear that was hassling you, so it’s kinda fair.