Izaak the Wonder Poodle will eat carrots and apples until he's sick. Anything sweet and crunchy, but the pit trick is new.

Darby, leaving out anything attractive to raccoons can invite trouble. For one thing they carry Leptospirosis that can be picked up from their urine and transmitted to your pet and/or you. My parents nearly lost one of their poodles to it several months ago and they're still fitting health issues with the same dog. No raccoons in the yard until they put in a fish pond with gold fish.

Add that to rabies and raccoon roundworm.

http://www.cvm.uiuc.edu/ope/enotes/s...cle.cfm?id=187
http://www.peteducation.com/article....&articleid=454
http://www.hsus.org/wildlife/a_close.../raccoons.html