Don't leave dog or cat food out. If neighbors feed them ("they are so cute"
talk with them about the problems they are causing and see if they will agree to stop. Get fish and wildlife involved if they are feeding wild animals as many places that is illegal but often fish and wildlife people are too busy to help until you let them know the problems they are causing. And for you, having one attack you last year, you had to do the rabies shot thing, that should get some attention from them.
For us, they were getting into our chickens so I set out a trap and caught a young one, mama was nearby and 2 others in a tree. I hit the cage, yelled at the young one while mama growled at me, then shook a broom at her and yelled at her, telling her to leave, never come back "or else"! I didn't know if they understood english, but figure it couldn't hurt.
I let the young one out, it shot across our field with mama and up the tree with its siblings. We haven't had trouble from them since.
I did that once before in another place, caught and terrorized a raccoon before letting it go. A few days later it snowed and here were the tracks, walking across the yard, then doing a big detour around the scary chicken run.
Rats now, those suckers ate my broccoli and even worse, I finally managed to grow sweet corn but did I get to eat any? Noooooooooooooooooooo. All that was left was cobs on the stalks.
As I said, I wanted to relocate the raccoons, but a game person talked me out of doing so.
Best of luck to you and to them. They are doing what they do, which too often does not jibe with what humans want.
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