Every now and then I smell a skunk, did recently here, too, but not too often. I just hope my dogs don't try to tangle with one and get sprayed up close and personal! So far, they have been lucky.
They have "cornered" a possum in the middle of a newly planted bean field, no where to go, just had to scowl at the dogs with his long snout and big teeth! It was around midnight one night, I took a pic, but have no idea when it was, and don't organize my pics well enough. Anyhow, I went out there and spotlighted it and then called the dogs home, put them in the garage for the night, so Mr. Possum could get his butt home!
Raccoon, only spotted one here since I moved 4 years ago, and it was right before I started digging my koi pond!!! He somehow got into the yard, dogs chased it and it ran TO the house, up a pipe on the outside of my house, only place to go to get safe, although tree would have been more favorable, I would think. Again, brought dogs into house, shooed him away and told him not to come back! Guess he got the message! Never have seen any damage on ponds from any type of small animal like that.
Had foxes running the fields within a mile of my house, and coyotes do, too. But, never seen one in my yards. Have a cat missing, so maybe that is what happened to him! I just figured he went somewhere and died, but it could have been a coyote that caught him out in the fields hunting, too!