A number of years ago I worked with a gal who lived out that way and she told me her husband had shot about 20 coons from their back porch over the course of one week as the coons were rummaging around the garbage at the back of their property.
She couldn’t figure out why there were so damn many coons out there but as it turns out, their property borders all that state land where the pest control companies release the coons…….
At that same time I met a guy who traps coons as a hobby then sells them to a furrier that sets up his truck at the Great Lakes Crossing parking lot every Sunday. He said that he does all his trapping on that state land out by my friend’s house…….
FWIW I remember Grandpa going out raccoon hunting at night with 2-3 ‘coon dogs, and the pelts being stretched out on plywood forms in the rafters in the detached garage. This was 50 years ago in rural SE Michigan not far from Toledo.
An old coot who we hired to trap some beaver out of our lake was the county “go to” guy for coons. I’m friends with one of his sons, awhile after his dads passing he laughed and told the wife and I what his old man was up to.
He would go into the nicer subdivisions and trap annoying coons for a fee, then release them near another nice subdivision across town, the old fart had a real scam going around the entire county.
He said his dad probably caught this one same old coon with a bobbed tail at least 10 times over the years...