{"id":364920,"date":"2026-04-05T13:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364920\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T13:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:27:22","slug":"camera-captures-couple-fighting-off-raccoon-that-attacked-family-dog-and-wouldnt-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364920\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera captures couple fighting off raccoon that attacked family dog and wouldn\u2019t let go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2026\/04\/02\/woodstock-family-fends-off-raccoon-attack-dog-backyard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2026\/04\/02\/woodstock-family-fends-off-raccoon-attack-dog-backyard\/\">ANF<\/a>\/Gray News) \u2014 A Georgia family is still in shock after a raccoon attacked their dog in their backyard, and the whole thing was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sean Yanes said he took his dog, Ro Ro, outside on Sunday evening and spotted the raccoon, initially thinking nothing of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo, I start filming it,\u201d he said. \u201cOh, a raccoon &#8230; [to] show the neighbor\u2019s kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Seconds later, the raccoon lunged at Ro Ro, clinging to her tail. Yanes said the leash slipped from his hand, and the raccoon dragged Ro Ro across the yard. Wearing house slippers, Yanes fell while trying to fight the animal off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cKick, slip, I roll down there &#8230; get a stick, come back and start smacking it with the stick,\u201d he said. \u201cI broke the stick across its back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His wife then ran outside to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know what it was at the time,\u201d Ashley Yanes said. \u201cI just knew we had to get them apart from each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sean Yanes managed to get the raccoon in a headlock until it released Ro Ro\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOnce we got to flat ground, then it was on,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I wasn\u2019t falling anymore and I wore it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both Ro Ro and her owners are now OK after visits to a vet and a doctor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Looking back, the family said it could have been far worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re constantly looking to see if we see it [the raccoon] &#8230; our neighbor has a 1-and-a-half-year-old,\u201d Yanes said. \u201cAgain, the situation could have been so much worse than it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family is working with wildlife experts to try to capture the raccoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 ANF via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (ANF\/Gray News) \u2014 A Georgia family is still in shock after a raccoon attacked their dog in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[191803,17480,191801,191804,9219,15124,111,139,69,191799,92272,191800,147,191802,406,171090],"class_list":{"0":"post-364920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ashely-yanes","9":"tag-atlanta","10":"tag-attacked-by-a-raccoon","11":"tag-caught-on-camera","12":"tag-dog","13":"tag-fight","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-rabid-raccoon","18":"tag-raccoon","19":"tag-raccoon-attack","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-sean-yanes","22":"tag-wildlife","23":"tag-woodstock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}