They will kill pets and chickens.
Racoons have drowned coon dogs.
They might kill chickens but I have never had them mess with a cat. Even the foxes won’t mess with my cats.
Yep. Attacked my Dad’s German Shorthair in the middle of the night, when she interrupted their raiding of her food supply on the service porch. Three of them, ripping into her. My father jumped into the fray, grabbing and throwing ‘coons, who came back at him. Finally drove them off. Stitches and antibiotics for both them, and a course of rabies treatment for Dad. No fun, to say the least.