Be careful, inTn.
There is no doubt that a raccoon is beautiful and the kits are as cute as can be...but if they get too comfy, they will invade your house.
A couple of years ago I had a comfy mama decide to have her babies in my attic...two years in a row. There are very few houses they can’t find a way to get in. The damage was unbelievable. Ruined insulation, ruined a/c ducts, filth, ruined furnace-a/c. The babies clawed their way thru the ceiling and dropped into my house. I can’t even to tell you about that damage...or getting them out of the house.
It was the nightmare from he!!.
Golden Malrin flybait will kill racoons in an instant. (Probably a dog or cat also if they had access to it), but put a pan of it where the racoons are and they will be dead the next day.
We live right in the middle of the city, right next to a golf course. We have squirrels, possums, and tree rats, tons of them. We also have a bug man that will remove possums and rats from our attic since they continually break into the top of the house one way or another. It is a nightmare.