My father and his neighbor had raccoon problems, but they trapped 26 with live traps. They shot them as they caught them and dumped them along an old railroad siding. Nothing would eat them, not even the coyotes. Left a pretty big pile of raccoon bones.
They had made a real mess last year they were all over his roof at night, they were eating the persimmons of the tree outside his bedroom window. Such a waste of good fruit.
Being stupid, we started putting out snacks for an invading raccoon (he was so cute!). Our wonderful, placcid neighbor went berserk when he found out what we were doing. The raccoons had been on his roof tearing off tiles to get into his attic. Fortunately, for us, our friendly raccoon got run over in the road..... I hope you are getting rain? We are. First, good rains since last October. Mountain lion tracks in the dry creek bed.