Years ago I had raccoons coming in my garage through a cat door to get at the cat food. Rented a live trap and borrowed a .22 from my neighbor so I could dispatch them and dump them in my ditch.
Told a co-worker about it and she got upset. Told her I’d be happy to bring them to her in the trap.
Use 22 shotshells, when the police showed up about gunfire coming from my back yard, I showed them the ammo, and the dead ‘Coons. They said, no problem, those can’t kill anything beyond 15 feet anyway.
Raccoons are really smart though, they didn’t come around begging for food after I killed 1.
We live in a liberal city and visited a friend with a new husband and their country home with a small bird and rabbit enclosure.
He said a raccoon (or was it a fox?) had gotten in and killed a bunch of them. He said he used a live trap, caught it and set it loose several miles away on the other side of the river.
“You let it go!? I would have killed it.”
“Um. Well, I did. But I didn’t know how you might react to that being from the city and all.”