Honestly, I think living in the country, we actually have less raccoons coming to our houses than some people living in the suburbs. It seems they are far more likely to go rummaging through garbage cans and the like in town than they are in the country. But, in the country, they are sneakier, too, and more skittish. In town, dogs and cats are kept inside, so they don't have to deal with them. The country dogs are more likely to run a raccoon off, although my goldens didn't. They didn't care if raccoons, opposums, skunks anything came into the barn. They might bark at them to let me know they were there, but otherwise, they were cats to the dogs and welcome.
Addy, I'm hoping my pond will be deep enough and no wandering critter will find the snails, too! If you don't have maurading raccoons where you live, that's amazing!
JW, I would love to wish that my baby coons found me here, but I'm about 15 miles west of where I used to live. But, good thought!
