A racoon is trying to come in through the doggie door and eat the cat food!!!
I have one cat that I took in over 3 years ago after she started living in my yard. Now there's another cat that's been living in my yard who I've pretty much taken in since the owner, who lives a block away, has ignored my texts telling her he's come back here. I had taken him in to a vet after a couple weeks when the job I was on at the time ended and I had time, and he's microchipped. So I got them reunited, but she had said she didn't even know he was missing. After 2 weeks! She just puts food outside for him since he didn't like to stay inside and said she figured he was okay since the food was gone. Well there's plenty of squirrels, possums, skunks, raccoons and coyotes here. And the poor things was starving for affection as much as he was starving for food. He was skin and bones and even then he opted for affection before he started eating the food I gave him. Such a sweetie.
So he and I have adopted each other. I showed him the doggie door and it's made him more comfortable coming inside since he knows he can go back out whenever he wants. During the last half hour a raccoon has tried to use it twice! So I had to block it off. Mr.Cat is outside. I hope he doesn't want to come in during the night. Hopefully after he gets more comfortable here I can block him in overnight like I do with my current cat. She likes to be inside at night now.
My current cat chased a raccoon out of the kitchen once, but she's not that big and I don't want any fights.
Should I get rabies shots for the cats? I know raccoons can carry it.
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When I suggested to the vet that my cat might not need unnecessary shots because she was an indoor cat, I was told by - not one, but two vet offices - that my cat could be in real trouble if, for example, a bat somehow got loose in my house. I laughed off the remote possibility, but got my cat her required shots, anyway. And then I learned, not from one, but from two of my coworkers, that this exact thing had happened to one of them and to the other's sister! The sister's pets were current with their inoculations, but the sister and her little girl were required to get rabies shots. As for the other coworker, she had the choice of paying to put her two cats in quarantine or having them put down. So my indoor cats get whatever inoculations the vet recommends... 
So you can imagine my surprise when I heard about this exact experience from two coworkers who I know well. I don't see bats around here, either, but evidently they are around at night.
But, after dismissing such an unlikely scenario which was brought up to me at both vet's offices, I was awfully shocked to learn that this had actually happened - and to two people I knew. And my indoor cat did get out once, fortunately no further than the porch. 
