I like raccoons, too.  Just a couple of weeks ago, I was watching the Rockies game when my cat started making strange catterwalling sounds and went to the sliding glass door that leads to a porch.  I got up to see what was going on, thinking it was another cat, but no, my cat was rubbing noses through the glass with a raccoon!  I walked right up to the door and the 'coon just looked at me.  I'm sure if I'd opened the door, he would have walked right in.  No fear at all.  He hung around about an hour, then climbed a trellis to the top of the fence and scampered off after finding no dog food in the yard.

A couple of years ago, I heard a commotion on the deck.  I flipped on the light, and a really big, fat raccoon waddled off.  I'd stored some bird seed in a cabinet on the deck, and he'd managed to open the cabinet door to get into it.   I have no idea how he managed climb the fence, as fat as he was.  

Had a duck hang around about 4 hours earlier this summer.