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.
My uncles in northern Michigan were avid coon and bear hunters with their dogs. Fortunately one of them was a vet because it was inevitable that one or more of the dogs would get torn up by the coon or bear......