Creatures Most Likely to Attack Pets
July 27, 2009 by Peggy Rowland
Filed under Pets
Letting your pup outside to exercise or take care of biz could have some unintended consequences. Of course, we all know that wild creatures share our neighborhoods. However, do you know what animals are most likely to attack your pets?
Paw Nation recently reported on Animals Most Likely to Attack Pets.
Yes, the number one wild creature that may attack your pet outside is a snake.
What’s next?
Coyotes, then raccoons. Squirrels, skunks and rats are also included in the the list of the top ten animals that may attack your pets. To read the full list, visit Paw Nation.
Animal attacks are a big reason it’s important to keep your pet rabies vaccines up to date. In some states, bitten pets that aren’t current on vaccines have to undergo a long quarantine process away from family. Read about a case of this happening at Dogster in the post Out-of-Date Rabies Vaccine Lands Dog in the Clink.
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I can’t imagine Jerry being away for two weeks, me trusting someone else to take care of him for two weeks, or them putting up with being barked at for two weeks. Anyway you slice it, that would be horrible. Nevermind the possibility of contracting rabies.
Jerry gets his vaccines, though, despite being an indoor dog that never leaves the house without me.
I’m actually bothered by seeing scorpions on that list…
Sam, I’ve never actually seen a live scorpion. Have you? They still scare me a bit though! I’d be a bag of nerves if I had an outside cat. I can see a cat trying to attack a snake.
No, I haven’t seen one, and I don’t really want to. I’m not fond of arachnids.
When I was five, a kitten wandered into our laundry room off the carport. She soon moved into the house. I was worried enough about snake attacks that I decided to “train” her to fight snakes. (This involved a sock and 5-year-old logic.) By the time I was 12, she was perfectly capable of chasing people out of the house. Never really encountered a snake, though.
Hahaha. That snake training sounds cute.
We have coyotes, I’ve seen them in the field right beside our house, and we can hear them yipping and calling at night. I always worry about them getting into a tangle with one of our dogs. We have a wireless fence that keeps the dogs fairly close to the house, and only let them out when we’re home, but it’s still a worry.
My dogs have tangled with raccoons, opossums, and skunks before. They came out on the losing end with both the coons (stitches)and the skunk (ewwww!).