re the first: Talk to Mrs. Drew
re the latter:  Trapping raccoons is like nailing Jell-O to
the wall-
suggest more Draconian measures.
Few years back there was a sow living in the storm sewer in
front of our house, as the corn ripened she would visit the
garden & peel back a few ears to test.
Got hold of the worlds biggest Hav-A-Hart, baited it w/ a
nice ripe piece of Young's Farm apple pie- I know how to set
a Hav-A-Hart.

Came back the next morning the trap was sprung, the pie was
missing & the corn was stomped- I'm telling you it was
retaliatory vandalism.

My next idea was a deer rifle, though I did have a line on
some grenades.
Disgression being the better part of valor I went back to
the old fashioned method of obtaining corn-
Steal it from the field on the way back from fishing.

DD