Ya know, my friend. I now where to go with my two squirrels, two chickens and a couple of obnoxious raccoons. 
I've heard it said there's raccoons around here, but all I've ever seen of anything like that are opossums.
<<not an expert on wildlife.
The cats do a pretty good job at keeping varmits at bay; when I first came here, the meadows and groves were infested with rabbits and garter snakes. It's now been about, oh, four years, since I've last seen any of these.
One time when I woke up in the middle of the night, I thought there was a cat on the front porch who wanted inside, and so I kindly opened the door. As it came inside and immediately headed for the kitchen, it took me five or ten seconds to think, "Hey, that's rather big for a cat." (The house was dark.)
It turned out to be a big fat opossum about the size of a small (but not an infant) pig, and it'd vacuumed down the entire contents of the cat-food bowl before I could persuade it to leave.
The cats weren't on the job that night.