TIL you don’t need to make elaborate mixtures of carrots, tomatoes and lettuce inside the bait part of traps. You can literally just drunkenly slather peanut butter on the outside of the bait bit and they’ll still go for it.
Do not be fooled by his pleading eyes. I tried to give him a Beggin Strip and he HISSED AND GNASHED HIS TEETH AT ME. He was very soft though.
He has now been freed into the forest and the garden will be marginally less tore up going forward 
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One of these frickers killed mango and we’ve been putting traps out ever since. We use wet cat food to bait our traps since we have plenty of it and it’s pretty effective.
Once we caught a dead raccoon in one of the traps I can only assume the door shutting behind it caused the poor creature to have a heart attack and die.
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Are you sure he wasn't just walking
around with a cyanide capsule in his teeth 
to avoid 
being taken alive?
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Secret Chinese raccoon spies are real I fricking knew it
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(((raccoons)))
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