Sure, if you happen to have one handy. But when your pet’s getting mauled and you have to act quickly…personally I think he took the right tack. Racoons are used to fighting other animals tooth & claw or, with people, getting stuff swung or thrown at them. To just run up, grab it by the limbs and bodily hurl it before it can even figure out what’s going on gave the pet owner the element of surprise. And the ‘coon likely got out of it with minimal injury and the memory of just how easily he/she could be turned into a frisbee.