Raccoon
A masked, dexterous nighttime opportunist — clever hands at work in the parts of the house you forgot to lock.
A raccoon in a dream is the dream's image of clever hands at work in the parts of the house you forgot to lock. The raccoon is not violent; it is dexterous and curious, and it will work a latch until it opens. The dream brings the raccoon when something in your life — a habit, a person, a small intrusion of the outside into your private space — is using cleverness rather than force to get into where it was not invited. A raccoon turned away with a properly secured lid is the dream telling you the small carelessness has been corrected. A raccoon found inside, with the cupboards open, is the dream noting that the cleverness was patient and you assumed your ordinary closing was enough.