>I recently moved. My cat (Tiger) has become adjusted with the new place. In the process he has made new friends. One is a blonde raccoon, which thinks it is a cat. So I have been calling it a Catcoon.
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>Well, yesterday morning I opened the front door to let Tiger in. Only to discover him lying at the door with wounds. I took him to the vet, and they fix him up. The vet asked me if he had been in a fight. I told her that there is a dog in the neighborhood. She said that the wound were too small for a dog, that they appeared to be more like a raccoon or like.
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>Well, today, the danm Catcoon tried to follow Tiger into the house. I just got rid of one bad room-mate, I don't need another.

Coons can shred a cat in a heartbeat. Generally they don't make good friends.

We had a pair of coons that raised a family in our garage a few years ago. We feed our outdoor cats (around a dozen at any given time) in the garage, so they were all in close proximity but suprisingly never had issues. We've had other cats and dogs that came home dripping blood from fighting a coon or a possum.

OTOH we has a possum that lived in the garage for years, and she raised babies each year. She was so tame that she'd come to us to get patted (possums purr by the way - we found that out).

Anyway - Not a chance I'd let a wild coon into the house! I had a friend that had a pet coon (hand raised) that had it's own room in the house that had multiple door locks to keep it from getting loose into the rest of the house unless it was on a leash. It was a pretty cool creature and it was very friendly, but give it half a chance and it would tear anything it got it's little hands on to shreds.