They ruin a garden quickly. They will ruin a tomato plant to take one bite from a green tomato. Cute but very destructive. I trap and relocate to the woods. They occasionally have rabies. If you don’t catch them when you first notice damage, they devastate.
Raccoons are worsse. To a dairyman, barn rats, woodchucks, and the deer are all in the same class; feed and crop-destroying vermin. Shoot ‘em all, as soon as possible. See what a Ruger 10/22 will do for a just-mown hayfield. No friends of Bambis, no sir.