A Whistler woman is recovering after a raccoon attack in her backyard.
Cheryl Parker was sitting in her Tapley’s Farm home on Nov. 19, about to take her 12 lb. pomeranian, Zoey, for her last walk of the day.
“She went off the back deck, and I think there was a raccoon under the deck and they met. I was still in the house… I heard the raccoon screeching and the dog screeching; both of them. I just bolted out the door,” Parker remembered.
“It was dark, so all I could see was a ball of fur, and I didn’t know which was which, so I just reached down, grabbed the ball with two hands and pulled it apart. The one on the left was the raccoon and the one on the right was the dog, so I threw both of them.”
Parker knelt down to scoop up her pup to safety, but the raccoon, about twice Zoey’s size, wasn’t happy about being tossed around. It quickly turned its sights on Parker and lunged towards her.
“It flew and jumped and landed on my thighs, because I was sitting in the snow,” Parker explained.
“It got my thigh, and of course you go to hit it with your hand, so it grabbed my hand.”
