Tlacuache vs. Cats!

This photo was taken outside my home in Mexico, I lived in Cuernavaca Morelos, and specifically the place where I lived in, its inside a non urbanistic location, this kind of mammals I believe are marsupials(probably I'm wrong), and they are omnivores and they can kill larger preys like goose(they killed and ate ours), In Mexico we called these creatures Tlacuaches or Zarigüeyas, probably from nahuatl derivations as you can see in this photos there is a competition against my cats cause the Tlacuaches also likes cat food.
At night they make the most annoying and bizarre of noises (kind of piggy scream mixed with something creppy), and they have a great tail wich they use to climb up the trees, and their offspring can wrap to their mom's back with it.
We in our home didnt make anything to harm them, but our neighbors are always poisoning them because they sometimes attack their chicken and stuff, obviously the neighbours are also poisoning their cats, our cats, their dogs, etc. However There are many of them still alive (I hope), but not in my backyard anymore...