Baby smelled of food?
I had to kill a raccoon inside my home as it became aggressive when tried to shoo it out the door.
Raccoons can inflict a lot of damage with teeth and claws.
We have raccoons in Spokane too. I feed an outdoor feral cat on my deck and in the summer, raccoons like to come up and steal the food. A whole family of them arrived one evening, and I shouted and tried to chase them with a broom. A couple of the babies ran away but the mother stayed and would have attacked me if I didn’t have a that broom and a loud voice.
Scary. They attack cats too and, of course, have rabies.
Baby is made of meat. Raccoons absolutely love meat. Usually live ducks, geese and chickens are their prey, but to a raccoon accustomed to the sights, sounds and smells of people’s neighborhoods and digging in trash for pizza and chicken bones, a helpless baby would qualify as dinner and be a lot easier to take than a goose.
Exactly WHY did you have a racoon in your house?