I don't know about a racoon or if there is a free bull, but to get the cat you have to befreind Romana at the vella, she loves milk, and in the second chapter wake up after your wife one day, and she will give you one. The ducks, you have to buy a pond for first, then you should put fertilizer on the grass all the way around it, then, when the grass becomes green enough for you to cut it, ALWAYS DO!!! eventually in the second chapter, wake up aftewr your wife, and there will be ducks there. If you have more thatn one male, sell it 4 x-tra money. About the bull, you really don't need them unless youwant to mix breeds of cow, otherwise, they are just a waste of space. I sugest, getting the miracle potions, they may be a little expensive, but you make it up with the milk that your cow gives you from the pregnancy. If you want to buy a bull though, you can, because in the long run, you spend just one lump sum,of money, rather than continuing to spend the money over and over, but they do take up space where a milk giving cow would go, so either way u loose money, but hey, its ur call

To get a raccoon befriend Vesta. Duck, get a pond before the 2nd year and only have 6 chickens. Owl befriend the harvest sprites. Free bull where have u heard about that?