Three weeks ago a raccoon started to visit Agnes' parents' house
in the middle of the night.  It would dig up the garden and
overturn plants.  We assume it was digging for worms and grubs
to eat.  It would come almost every night between 2:00 and 4:00
in the morning, and it was causing all sorts of trouble in the
garden.  Agnes' parents started trying different things.  The
ASPCA would not help unless the raccoon was first trapped. 
Agnes' parents rented a trap and put in some hotdogs as bait. 
Don't worry, it wasn't one of those traps with the big teeth. 
It's a cage with a door that only opens in one direction.  The
next morning, they found the raccoon had overturned the cage,
causing the hotdogs to fall out.  Next they tried putting
chicken wire around the garden.  It worked for one night, but
then the raccoon found that it could just push its way through. 
Attaching a car battery to the chicken wire didn't seem to
supply enough voltage to concern the raccoon.  Rat poison was
the next attempted solution. 