I get the feeling a raccoon/crow would be a relatively easy creature to befriend, and also a awesome friend. Once again reminded of the ski lift operator I worked with once that could get a crow to land on his shoulder.
You could befriend one by feeding it a doughnut every day for a week, but if you miss a day 3 generations of your descendants will be haunted by crows, racoons, and crowcoons
Drive them from my garbage bin? Heavens no! I'm BEFRIENDING that RacCrow with da GUD gorbage! I'll give them fresh fruit, not quite expired groceries from my pantry, and ✨ S H I N Y T H I N G S ✨
Wait, that's one half to do the killin' and one half to do the cleanin'? Ok.
Off topic but I saw a run over vulture yesterday, fuck whoever did that, those birds are awesome. I love them. I once had something dead drug into my yard by some local creature and I was trying to get myself psyched up to go deal with it but then, into my yard fly 4 vultures! When they left, no smell no mess, nothing. They are a miracle.