Boy, how did I miss this thread?

When I lived in urban Palo Alto raccoons were the bane of my existence. They came through my cat door into the house. I put in one of those "magnetic locking" cat doors where your cat has to stand in a certain spot for the magnet on its collar to unlock the cat door. They figured that one out before my cats did.

I used to get 6 to 8 raccoons a night in my tri level condo. They'd eat the soap in the bathroom and unwind the roll of toilet paper, dumping it into the (now) muddy water in the hall powder room toilet before dragging it through the hallways all over my white carpets.

I had to buy a carpet cleaning machine to shampoo off the muddy paw prints.

Once they got into a big lidded glass jar where I kept "souvenir" champagne corks (over 300 of them). I guess they thought they were dog biscuits or something. They chewed them up and then spat them out, all over my stairs and Persian carpets.

Now I just have deer, oh sorry, used to have deer! My new deer fence works!