Raccoon Prints

Something digs into our grass at night occasionally.  I googled what it might be and a raccoon or skunk or opossum were the likely possibilities.  But I really couldn't find a place where a skunk could get it.  And then one morning while stomping the chunks of grass back down Jackie found these:

I was so proud of her for spotting these prints all on her own.  We followed them, but they wore off on the putting green surface.  We walked all around the yard looking for more.  We found some dry dusty ones in some dirt near a fence.  Jackie was a little freaked out thinking the animal would still be in the yard.  But she also thought the hunt for prints was exciting stuff.

We're pretty confident those are raccoon prints, and from a pretty big raccoon too.  I thought about having it trapped.  But, really who is it hurting?  They've got to live somewhere and they've got to eat somehow.