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Scott, I’m not a lover of racoons either. Around the Washington, DC area where I live they do brain autopsies on them because so many of them carry rabbies. I see dead ones on the road all the time. I once saw a whole family of them eating a bee hive in the ivy on the side of my house. I went up to the second floor and dumped a bottle of ammonium cleaner on them, it got all over their fur – they didn’t like that and went away. Bob — In diamondbackterrapins@egroups.com, “Scott Howard”