Why cats don't try to fight coons, coons can hurt a dog, a big dog. Our dalmation and our st. bernard won't touch a coon for anything, never mind a cat tring to go after one. They aren't as crazy as a dog is.(Please excuse my southern slang) My cat has however caught possuims and armadillos, and held them until my dad got there to get them. And she has gotten rabbits too. And snakes, only she kills rattlers.