Cat food and a suppressed .22 will get the job done.
On a very serious note…
Raccoons can carry an Encephalitis virus, IT’S ALSO IN THEIR DROPPINGS.
A 2 y.o. boy one town over from me was playing in his backyard on the lawn and picked up a raccoon pellet, chewed on it for a moment before spitting it out.
That’s all it took, the kid got infected and now he’s brain damaged for the rest of his life. And I mean fucked-up.
And you better believe it, dead raccoons started showing up all over town and the authorities had nothing to do with it.
Now with the trash cans that raccoons can’t get into, their population’s to where you hardly see one anymore.