They are cute, but they're just bloodthisty toddler-sized hobos. They prey on small dogs and cats or fight them for territory, they eat chickens, they destroy fucking everything, and they can carry and spread rabies. They will rip up plants, tear siding off your house, pull up paving stones, and even break windows. Just imagine a hostile drifter on your property trying to fuck it up as hard as possible out of spite for you, and that's about right.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They couldn't enter here, would've got to climb some pretty high walls first :) But i get your point. So it's like living in a very bad neighborhood just that the invaders and house-fuckers are fucking cute. Yet we drive 2h regularly to pet them in a tiny spot where they live. So it's nowhere near your situation. Up to discovering that spot we didn't even think they'd live here at all.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Raccoons can climb sheer walls. Anything they can grip with their claws, they can climb.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

If they'd manage to climb these 8m walls, I'd be impressed and feed them their favorite food as a reward 😁

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We don't put 'siding' on our houses so that'll be fine, not looking forward to rabies tho :(

We do have foxes with rabies already, and wild boars plowing up lawns and flower beds

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We don't put 'siding' on our houses

It's very common for continental European houses to have lap siding of some kind. Homes built according to modern trends are not the only kind of home there is.