kat/katlaughing, you're surely right about the young animals. Tonight I'll have to set my trap for raccoon #4. I've gotten a mother, her kit, and one sort of between those two in size so far, so I wonder what I'll get tonight. They're perfectly healthy, so I use a live trap, put them in the back of my minivan, and drive them about fifteen miles away, with the radio speakers turned up in the back of the van. It's as far away from houses as I can find, with woods and a stream.