People that do not know better think that raccoons are just cute and cuddly creatures. Nothing could be further from the truth. I always know when I lose chickens to raccoons because they tear the heads off and leave dead chickens scattered around without eating anything - they kill them just for sport. I shoot raccoons on sight around here.
Duke’s dog proof coon trap. I’m up to 61, so far this year.
they’ve killed my dtrs chickens as well.....when they lived in town in an apartment building with tall trees all around, they would leave cat food out on their back porch because they thought the raccons were so cute.
I lost so many chickens one year I set leg hold traps all around my coop. One night I got three including a 35 lb monster.