We have HUGE raccoons here in our neighborhood, and they are scary! Mark ran outside a couple of nights ago, because it sounded like two of them were killing each other. Another neighbor was out there too. We never saw a dead one, and they decided that it was probably attacking a cat. The cat was fine the next day though. We just stay away from them. I finally took down my bird feeders because they were in the backyard every night. I knew that Bailey was going to tangle with them eventually.