""I kept pushing it away, and it kept coming at me and coming at me," VanBuskirk said."
"VanBuskirk fought off the raccoon with her one good arm, eventually throwing it off her deck and reentering her home."
"There was blood everywhere, and we couldn't find the little dog, and that was the most difficult part."
"I will probably never let my dogs out in the middle of the night again," she said."
A woman in Somerville was attacked by a raccoon when she opened her back door late at night to let her dogs out. The raccoon scratched her eye and bit her multiple times on her hands and calf. Despite recovering from shoulder surgery, she fought off the animal with one arm, ultimately managing to reenter her home and call for help. Emergency personnel treated her wounds and administered rabies vaccines. She expressed relief her dog was found and vowed never to let her pets out late at night again.
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