It's hard to say with the photo, but since I am assuming raccoons are chemosensory oriented, the defensive display of the hognose may not have been enough to deter the predator. Why it stopped there, who knows. Let us know what the doc says, and what treatment, if any is needed.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)

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Calvin and Hobbes (Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink', 1991)

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