Yeh, well, we have a long history of raccoons.

I inherited my mother's home, which is a summer cottage, 10 years ago. She fed the racoons for years, they came and were fed out of her hand. Generations of racoon babies came to our cottage.

Well, we have had heck to pay ever since! Twice they have chewed through the roof of the cottage, once through the soffit, once straight through the roof. The first time they did considerable damage to the cottage, because they fell through from the attic into the house, and rampaged around. Enough said.

We have had the trees around the place banded, but we may have to resort to a metal roof. I dread going up there for the first time every spring.