Raccoon issue...

[meatman]

I'm glad I live in an area where nobody really cares if you shoot a .22 and the majority of the neighbors are gunowners. I had to take out a family of coons that were nesting in my workshop (the unfinished part of our house). One 20 lb mother and 3 juveniles. I guess it helped that the shots were indoors.

[ridgewalker]

If you have no dogs or cats to get caught in them, snares are quiet and deadly. You can make your own (google them) or buy them...pretty cheap.

I use a live trap and haul them to the mountains where they get a chance to run.

Also, some municipalities have live traps to loan out, maybe the DOW does as well?

[spyder]

Have your mom call the local animal control, they should lend you traps for them and then come out and get them when they get caught. This is what they did in Junction anyway.