Nuisance aminals

[Eden]

Sorry Darcy, you're just not going to convert me to a racoon lover. I live in the city - and I've been seeing racoons out during the day around here recently - with people around and everything so I'm thinking they are getting much more bold. Maybe out in the country where there are lots of other opportunities to eat they are not a dangerous nuisance, but around here they've started to decide that pets are fair game..... (oh and don't talk to the people who try to keep koi ponds...)
I live a 15 min walk from downtown Seattle, so we don't have the big predators... (though I have heard rumors that someone saw a coyote a few blocks from my house) so I can be pretty sure cougars aren't killing all the cats - still an unbelievable number went missing this spring.