True that but if there was a most likely to be defective/immediately fail category the green TSC traps are it.
I recommend spending ten dollars more for the havajunk and adding enough hog rings to make it serviceable.
A few years back one of my colleagues was just getting started. I helped him get geared up by giving him all of my rebuilt havajunks. He was still short a basic load of cages so he bought this great deal on traps from TSC. He learned the hard way the very first use. He caught a grey squirrel but...
As a child we had a neighbor lady who would make decorative baskets of eggs. She would blow them and lacquer them. That one would be a perfect candidate for such a project.
Remington CeeBees is my poison of choice. The round uses a hollow point and is lower powered along the lines of a short or CB cap but built on the long rifle case. Shorts and CBs regularly fired in a standard LR chamber will over time leave a ring of carbon fouling that needs scrubbed out to use...
You haven't caught any armadillos have you? Raccoons aren't slouches either.
They may be fine for cats, opossums and kitten coon but one passed mama coon wanting to return to her babies or one average diller and you have a mangled trap.
I average a hundred or so dillers and coons a year and my...
FYI, if you ever have reason to suspect an animal is rabid and needs to be dispatched DO NOT SHOOT IT IN THE HEAD.
Two reasons, intact brain matter is required for testing and bullet impacts result in high speed spray of potentially infectious materials.
Relocation of raccoons in Alabama is rather unique. It is allowed but in light of the potential spread of rabies is is somewhat restricted. Only within the same watershed AND county. Basically you can't dump a sick raccoon out of an already infected area.
Much simpler, imo, since there is no...
Rabies is a virus and isn't very durable and can not survive long outside the body. Is is rather easily killed so cooking would suffice as would cooling for a time. The main thing is safety in handling as the virus is found in the nervous tissues and saliva and salivary glands (yes raccoons have...
You're actually at greater risk in urban environments than rural due to the greater carrying capacity and habitat plus the greater reduced risks to predators.
Drive around the average subdivision and count the number of trash cans, bird feeders, pet food dishes, back yard gardens, fruit trees...
Not a troll, just sick and tired of the repeated bad advice given out by people who can't understand that animals are property easily replaced. Cull the bad and work with the good.
Maybe the all caps was over the top but when I deal with it daily from all sides it gets old to the point that I...
While coons generally move by night they will move whenever hunger or the urge hits them. They don't always eat/consume the head first. Mostly they target the bite sized neck and chew on it and the head first. I think this one was young and/or interrupted.
Can you do a covered run? Even if you free range maybe a covered run with small ground level entry so they have some overhead cover until you can close the door for the night.
I welcome you to visit with any of the dogs I've trained. My own peanut responds to my every command mostly via hand signal.
Big difference between training and emotion.
It's called TNR or Trap, Neuter and Release and in the opinion of many is an abject failure.
It does not lessen the dire environmental impact of non native invasive predators upon native flora and fauna.
It does not lesson the increased risk of zoonotic diseases like rabies, distemper, parvo...