I usually feed them three or four times a week. Sometimes I even skip feeding them for up to a week so they don't get used to being feed every night. Don't attract them too close to your house or they might start raiding your garbage cans. An interesting fact about raccoons is they do NOT wash their food before eating it. Raccoons are not a true hibernator although he is much less active in the winter and can remain in their den for a month.
Raccoons make dens in trees , in burrows in the ground, or even in an chimney of someone's house.
Most use old grounbdhog or fox dens . There are six different species of raccoons. In the wild they eat frogs, crayfish, berries, fruit, farmer's cornfields, small rodents, snails and fish. Their natural enemies would be coyote or mountain lion or even eagles, but their main predator is man from hunting Their babies are born in April or May and they usually have 4. They are helpless with their eyes closed until about 3 weeks.