I am supposedly on holiday this week (only 3-4 calls from work per day). What is this thing they call relaxing... Regarding Racoons - please, please come to Toronto and take all you can fit on a plane back with you. We live on the edge of a large park and they are compeletly fearless and horrifcally smart & overfed. They are quite capable of unhooking the bungee cord I keep the garbage lid on the racoon-proof bin (ha!) with. We rescued a baby when I was a kid and it ate through everything in our house that wasn't nailed down.