I also love the raccoons from my woods that come to eat their nightly meal here. It started with a very skinny raccoon looking in my back sliding door one spring. I put out food for her.....little did I know I would be feeding 5 babies as soon as they were old enough to get out if their den. Same thing happend the next year but she only had 3 babies. The possums know where to find the food too. I love these critters & how sweet they interface with me even though they are wild. It gives me warm fuzzy feeling to watch them play & eat on my deck. I love all the wild animals that visit my farm. Lots of deer (I don't allow hunting on my farm), beautiful red foxes, tons of cotton tail bunnies that raise their babies in spring & I have to watch out for where they raise their babies when mowing. The squirrely & chipmunks & even snakes & lizards are welcome here....& with my soft spot for all animals, I humanely catch mice in my house & relocate them far from my home on the other side of the creek to a place they can make a home where they really belong. Only time sad tits is when I see one hit by a car. My feeling of love for ALL animals has always existed. Lol....I had been dubbed Dr Doolittle by my friends.