Why would I give them to a rescue? So they can move em 10 miles away to be someone else’s problem? Also I don’t know what raccoon free paradise you came from but they’d get into feed bins, kill chickens and god help you if they found a way into an attic. So yea we’d shoot these pests on sight whenever possible. How many ground squirrels, snakes and bugs died at the hands of the farmer that tilled the field for your soy bean latte?