Why do raccoons steal food from cats?

Raccoon eating cats' food, likes to mix it in the water like a bowl of cereal. Funny how she runs off with hands full at the end. Rigogonzalez23.blogspot.com. read more

The raccoon family I had living in my yard didn’t exactly “steal” the food that I was putting out for a feral cat that had been coming around. I had a mother and 4 kits living in a tree close to the porch. read more

Stolen food is most certainly not as intrinsically valuable as another animal’s life, so I would suggest it is indeed wrong to kill raccoons for stealing your cat’s food. EDIT: In response to OP’s edit. IT IS NEVER “HUMANE” TO HURT AN ANIMAL. read more

This website tells you very interesting things. If you put food high enough, raccoons can't reach. I keep food inside this cat house but raccoon was going in there. So, I made inside of entry area like a little maze. I guess cats can manage tight corner but raccoon can't. So far it's preventing him from going in there. read more

Much of my childhood involved a cat-and-mouse like game between my family and raccoons, as they found increasingly clever ways to sneak into our house and steal our cat Pumpkin's cat food, and as we found increasingly drastic ways to stave them off. read more