I feel your pain Grumpy!
When I lived in the country, my house had a tin roof and an orchard in back. The raccoons loved the orchard for the fruit and my roof was their Disneyland!
The worst part is I lived alone and the noise on my roof was amazing. I had a metal pipe for the exhaust from the oil stove on the roof and it would shake violently. I got so worried I called my brother to spend the night with me to figure it out.

In the middle of the night it sounded like someone was knocking on the window in the other bedroom, so my bro wakes me up. So here we are in the middle of the night with flashlights trying to find the culprits. We finally spotted the little buggers playing tag! One would try to knock the other off the roof, so the falling one would hang on to the metal gutters and swing into the side of the house or window. Then he would claw his way back up and slam the other one into the metal pipe.
This continued for one whole summer!! That was the summer I decided to try a graveyard shift ;)

We live right next to wetlands and there are allegedly racoons out and about but we've never seen 'em. But there are a lot of cats on patrol outside and our two patrol the inner sanctum. Sashapants would killkillkill any that came near.

Those pesky little things are adorable.....ON TV... IRL they cause a lot of problems.....and the local animal control folk can't do much about them unless they are IN your house!

Yeah, we've chased them off with the flashlights and hoses! The longest we were ever out there chasing them off was about an hour! Like in the a.m. hours!

Animal control won't help. Someone gave us the idea of calling Fish and Game. Personally I'm looking for a racoon hunt!!

I think it must have been a coonish dream, I have no recollection of the events of that night

One time a pair of them ambled up to our second story deck. Eric slipped a bowl of water and some cat food out to them, and they ate it. Then, he gave them some marshmallows. It was pretty funny- they dip the marshmallows in the water, which of course makes the mellows disintegrate. Now that we have a large dog, they stay away.

Ever tried to sleep with stoneheng in your bed?;)

Yes, yes I have ;)

Worse yet if he does hear a noise late at night it's " Jill, go see what's going on out there." :eek:

I guess you are the conquering hero when it comes to defending the home! ;)

Yes! It's me a Scoundrel to the rescue. :rolleyes: