If you have some unexplained issues in your backyard, such as holes in your lawn and compost pile, missing eggs from your chicken coop, or empty bird feeders, you might have a raccoon problem. If so, ...

In Brooklyn, for example, captured raccoons sometimes get relocated to Prospect Park and nearby forests, but wildlife biologists report they often head right back to the dumpster-packed city streets.

“With that money I bought some live traps and I started getting rid of skunks ... “doors” that allow them to get out but not get back into the house. Raccoons and skunks are not so lucky.