It's nice that some people can appreciate raccoons. Here they are filthy and horribly destructive. They get in the haymows of barns and crap all over the hay. They will go along the bottoms of those long white silobags where farmers keep feed and tear holes in the plastic; then will climb up on the top of the bags and tear holes there. Never mind that there is a 9 foot opening at one end where they can, essentially, self-feed. The holes they make have to be taped up with special tape or the air that gets in the holes will spoil the feed for the cattle. We have spent literally hours cleaning up the messes they make.
I have to put my barn cat food in pails that I hang by chains from a pipe hanging across the barn so they can't get into it. They can decimate a 50 pound bag of cat food in a night.
