‘It was a monster’: Somerville woman recalls raccoon attack that left her hospitalized - Boston News, Weather, Sports

‘It was a monster’: Somerville woman recalls raccoon attack that left her hospitalized - Boston News, Weather, Sports

A Somerville woman is recovering from scratch and bite wounds after she was viciously attacked by a raccoon while letting her dogs out on Friday night. Katherine Vanbuskirk says the raccoon would not stop biting and scratching her in her garden on Chester Street. “I was hurling it off of me and it would come right back at me,” she recalled. “It was truly terrifying.” She told 7NEWS, “I opened the door and I was literally attacked by a large anim…