What to do if a cat is bitten by a raccoon?

Answer 1

Regardless if the raccoon is a pet or a wild animal, you should go to the emergency room for medical care.

According to the Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue, rabies from raccoons account for 41 percent of all human rabies infections from wild animals. http://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/2003/Summer/rabies.shtml

Go to the ER and get check out. If it's a pet, at some point the health department will want to test the animal. If it's wild and not in captivity, they may start giving you a series of injections for rabies.

Good luck but GO to the ER.

Answer 2

Take the cat to a vet for a check up, immediately. Raccoons can carry rabies among other diseases, and your cat is at risk.

Consider keeping your cat inside in future. Raccoons have ganged up on and killed cats in some places.

Answer 3

You first check if it really was a raccoon.

You then stop the bleeding if there is any.

Then go to a hospital no matter if it is a big or small injury. Raccoons can carry rabies so go to the hospital for a rabies check.

Answer 4

Seek medical care immediately. You may need to undergo a series of rabies shots.

Answer 5

Seek medical care immediately. You may need to take a series of rabies shots. Rabies is almost 100% fatal so you do not want to chance it.

Answer 6

Call the vet. It might be rabid.