I once read a book about cats and the author described one of her cats being attacked and killed by a raccoon. We had a family of raccoons in our yard in Chicago and I was always nervous about Edwina and Eddie because of it. Of course...they never went outside at night or unsupervised. But when my sister would visit with her pomeranian, Gavin...it was worrisome.

We had some abandoned kittens which died and we buried in the yard. Raccoons dug them up. The raccoons never looked as cute and cuddly to me after that.

So sorry about Ditz....