The thing is that I was trying to make a paradise to attract the backyard songbirds, butterflies, bees and humming birds. I wasn't trying to attract squirrels as I already had plenty and of course wasn't trying to attract racoons and possums as those already passed thru the yard regurarily. But if you plant your yard nicely and make it part shrubby woodsey and many flower beds plus berries galore and use lots of mulch to attract lots of earthworms then you get lots of animals. Plus I have lots of water as in three ponds, two 35 gallon and one 350 gallon. Plus birdbaths. So lots of racoons as things got more planted here.
