Large cats, too, might work.
It's not uncommon for them to blind or eviscerate house pets where I live....35 acres on a rural lake...
A dog/raccoon fight in water often results in the dog being drowned by the raccoon...
They can also transmit rabies and distemper...
If you value your dog I would highly recommend that you discourage encounters with raccoons...
so many wrong things in your statement.
Bloodbathing raccoons, highly intelligent animals, just because one is too lazy to implement simple solutions to coexist! When we lived in the duplex in Palo Alto bunch of years ago there was a large family of raccoons. It was great and fun.
Yes, the dogs would go out of their way to protect their humans and the house from whatever, raccoons included. Yet putting them into such situation unnecessary (even if dogs had good chances to avoid being harmed - and they don't as raccoons are pretty serious animals) is just a violation of that trust relationship between dogs and their humans.
I don't think I want to coexist with something which carries deadly diseases and is violent. Alternatively, coexistence with violent, disease-ridden animals consists of me living in location A and them living in location B, where locations A & B are well-separated.
do you mean humans? :) Anything else taken together, including raccoons, deadly snakes and hurricanes, is the distant second when we talk about danger to you from somebody carrying deadly diseases and the danger of violence.
>coexistence with violent, disease-ridden animals consists of me living in location A and them living in location B, where locations A & B are well-separated.
so, you're living alone far and well-separated from other people i guess :)