Video shows Connecticut woman rescuing daughter from aggressive raccoon - WOKV

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ASHFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut pistillate and her girl had an brushwood with a raccoon that they volition ne'er forget.

Lesley MacNamara, of Ashford, came to the rescue of her 5-year-old daughter, Rylee MacNamara, who had been bitten successful the limb by the carnal extracurricular their beforehand doorway connected Friday morning, CT Insider reported.

“It was precise bully parental instinct,” Connecticut State Police Trooper Cassidy Nuccio, who responded to the 7:55 a.m. EST telephone for help, told the website.

A video from MacNamara’s information camera shows the raccoon clamped down connected the screaming child’s near ankle.

“I was going retired to get connected the autobus and a raccoon was determination and tried to onslaught me,” Rylee MacNamara told WFSB-TV. “It didn’t privation to spell disconnected of my leg.”

Lesley MacNamara heard the commotion and came outside.

“I thought possibly she slammed her digit successful the door,” Logan MacNamara told the tv station. “I decidedly wasn’t expecting to spot a racoon wrapped astir her leg.”

The cuffs connected Rylee’s jeans helped support her ankle, which was red, but not bleeding, CT Insider reported. She was not injured.

Logan MacNamara pulled the raccoon disconnected her girl by grabbing it connected the backmost of its cervix with her close hand. At the aforesaid time, she held onto her girl and instructed her to spell into their home.

The MacNamaras were not the lone ones screaming.

The raccoon yelped arsenic it grabbed Logan MacNamara’s garment and held on.

The pistillate was yet capable to extricate the carnal from her garment connected her 2nd flip attempt, hurling it onto the writer below.

It was unclear whether the carnal was rabid, but parent and girl went to an country infirmary arsenic a precaution and received rabies shots, according to WFSB.

“We conscionable benignant of panicked astatine first. I was much frightened than anything,” Logan MacNamara told the tv station.

Nuccio said that radical should debar raccoons successful wide due to the fact that they could beryllium rabid. She besides advised that residents refrain from leaving garbage and nutrient outside, which could pull chaotic animals.

“If you spot 1 coming astatine you, springiness america a call,” Nuccio told CT Insider.

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