Raccoons. Nothing but trouble. Female looking for a place to nest, ripped all the shingles of my double layered roof on my house about a 2' circle and was starting to go through the wood in less than 2 minutes. They can be carrying 3 different parasites which are dangerous to children, pets, and you and I. And I've seen the results of coons killing and eating cats, dogs, chickens, ducks, and any other small mammal. I think the only reason city raccoons haven't eaten any children is toddlers and younger are not outside in the dark unsupervised. German shepherd was harassing a large raccoon walking the top of a 6' cedar fence. dog jumped up at the raccoon on the fence. Raccoon jumped down on the dog and the dog was dead, torn out jugular vein. Raccoon got on top of the fence and calmly walked the top of the fence into the dark. All my metal trash cans have a chain from the handle through the lid handle and hook to the other handle, especially my wife's bird feed storage cans. They have scattered the wood pile hunting something. They have chewed a holes in the garden hose to get water. I use traps and other things to discourage them ( the young are dumb). We have a person in the neighborhood who pours cheap dog food into a 30 gal steel drum cut in half the long way, wets it down and feeds them and lets them use a doggy door to her basement to let them nest there. I heard she is a stewardess and gone a lot. Federal wildlife says unless they see her pouring the dog food and see the raccoons eating while she is present in her yard they can't do anything. What would happen if you put out a salt lick and corn for deer, elk, and moose.