Hatfield = animals

so most people know we used to live in west bumf*k, NY....lived out in the country where you would *think* animals aplenty.... well we moved to the North suburbs of philadelphia and I didnt think we would encounter the zoo. This weekend we had two sightings/adventures. Reminder that a few months ago we had some groundhog fiascos and we saw a fox once in the woods...well saturday late morning we saw 3 deer slowly meandering behind our fence...pretty cool to see- nothing crazy there. but we never even saw deer in our yard in portville. so i was impressed. sighting #1
sighting #2 - sunday morning audrey woke us up at 7 ish. i fed her and was hoping she would fall back asleep...she didnt so at about 8:15 ryan got up and took her downstairs. I went back to bed. about 2 minutes after ryan left i heard our lovely poms barking in the backyard- no shock there. well then i heard murphy bark and the poms were getting more and more crazy with their barking. so i knew something was wrong. my first thought was oh great they got a squirrel. so i go into the bathroom and open the window to see whats going on. they are barking at a tree just outside the fence. Then i see a black tail and thought it was a squirrel, only then do i see the huge raccoon body attached to the tail. it was crawling down the tree (6 inches from the fence) towards the dogs. I go screaming down the stairs for ryan to go out and get the dogs. luckily ryan got the dogs to come inside and the raccoon went running off into the woods. I hope it wasnt rabid or that it comes back. it was atleast twice the size of linus.
I would have expected any of this where we used to live but not at our new house.