A Massachusetts woman was savaged by a large raccoon after letting her dogs into her backyard over the weekend.
Katharine VanBuskirk, 69, of Somerville, suffered horrific injuries to her arms, legs and face after the ordeal on Saturday morning.
She had just let her two dogs, Blue, a three-year-old black cocker spaniel, and Rubi, a one-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel, outside when the animal lunged at her.
'I was almost instantaneously leapt on by a raccoon', she recalled in an interview with the Boston Globe.
'It was a giant ball of viciousness. It bit me and scratched me. It attacked relentlessly, from every angle, it was terrifying', she said. She also described it as 'monstrous' to WCVB.
