Hmm . . . had a racoon setting up housekeeping in my attic late last winter. Fortunately, not with family, and he was out the day a couple of friends came over and sealed up his access point. A pretty painless eviction, it was.

One of the friends had (at least half-)jokingly talked about going up into my attic with a gun. I said, "You're not going up there and shooting off a .22!"
"A .22!?", he said, "a cornered racoon in a small space? I ain't goin' up with nothing less than a Colt .45!"