RALEIGH, N.C. — A Raleigh woman has to get rabies shots after a raccoon snuck into her home through her dog door on Aug. 29.
Raleigh CBS affiliate, WNCN, spoke to the woman and said she was sleeping upstairs when she heard a ruckus.
"I found food on the floor, two broken glasses, and was like 'What the heck happened here?' I turned around. and there was this raccoon."
The raccoon darted behind a chair during the incident.
According to WNCN, the woman hoped the animal would leave the same way it came in, but when it got close to the front door, she decided she'd try to get it out. She put on a pair of surgical gloves followed by a pair of metal mesh gloves, but they weren't enough.
She says when she tried to grab the raccoon by the scruff of its neck, it nipped and scratched her hand right through the gloves.
"I should have just called animal control, locked myself in a room," she said.
After the raccoon ran off, she cleaned her wounds and went to the emergency room, where she was given her first round of rabies shots. The woman will likely never know if the raccoon who entered her home is healthy or sick.
Multiple NC counties have reported rabies cases this summer in animals including foxes and raccoons.
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