A*hole. There’s a better and more humane way to eliminate raccoons; we’ve used it. Or trap the sucker and move it elsewhere — far, far away. (Supposedly, they find their way back as long as they don’t have to cross water.)
At least in Ohio it is illegal to move a nuisance animal.
Once you have trapped an animal it is your responsibility to dispose of it properly.
They’ll find their way back any distance under 20 miles.
They just wiped out all but my last hen, too. At first I couldn’t figure out how they did it and thought that maybe a hen didn’t go in to roost before I closed up. After this occurred again and again it was undeniable that they were getting picked off inside the henhouse. I looked for signs of digging as a dog had dug in one time before. I examined all the wire and made sure the sideboards were tight. The roof seemed tight too. Then one night I caught the coons in action. They had found a way to squeeze through two layered sheets of corrugated plastic roofing and when the light hit them one was halfway out with a chicken in its mouth and the other was panicking because the first was in its way. I beat the snot out of coon 2 with a three prong rake but coon 1 had made it out and up into a tree too thick to flashlight him.
My duck pen has proven to be coon proof and the ducks are safe in the daytime out on the pond, but the chickens are more vulnerable as the coons learn quickly to come out in broad daylight if they can’t get into the pen at night and ambush hens as they range. I used to have a dog that prevented this but after a few weeks they figured out the dog was long gone.
They keep coming back until they have found a way to kill everything you have. The small ones can reach through 1 by 1/2 inch wire....and grab a roosting bird, then they pull off parts of the screaming bird until they have gotten everything but the skull out of the cage or pen. They leave the skull rather clean even through the wire.
A gang of three “baby” coons pulled the wing off a quaker parrot before I got to it- bird survived after stitching it up but all I found of its mate was the head.