HAS anyone tried MARSHMALLOWS to trap RACCOONS?

[jmc]

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you might also catch some seagulls! i couldn't resist......

 

[Rowtag]

I have used marshmallows, but honestly they will come to cat food so I usually use that since I already have that handy.

 

[card5640]

For sure, excellent results, my father in law is a prof animal control officer, he uses only that for coons. He got a mom and 5 babies to come out of a church steeple, a very high steeple. In one week they caused a lot of ceiling damage. He had them on camera, climbing down the roof and sliding down the drain pipes. I used marshmellows in my yard trap this summer and "relocated" 8 coons.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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That sounds great.The reason I asked is because I had a coon issue a couple of months ago.I feed cats on my front deck and one morn before daybreak my outside dogs were raising a big ruckus.My house dogs pointed me to the front door.When I opened the door there was a huge coon at the cat food bowl.Usually I have a shovel by the door but not that morn.That coon didn't want to give up the cat food and stood up at me.I closed the door but when I came out the coon had only moved about 8 feet and stood up at me again.I couldn't shoot at it because my rifle is loaded with rat shot and one of my cats was no more than 4 ft. from the coon. The coon ran off in the dark.
I went back into the house to continue working on the grape juice I was making.In about 15 min.my Mastiffs in my back yard were going nuts so I looked out my kitchen window to where they pointed and it was the corner of my chicken lot.This time I took off down my basement stairs (by now it was light) and as I went out the door I grabbed my square point shovel.My yard is small but there was a young coon with its hand at the bottom of the gate to the chicken enclosure.It was making crazy noises and acted like the world was coming to an end if it didn't get that gate open.I was fired up and when it moved about a foot from the gate I killed it with the shovel.
I've never been one to just kill an animal but let something threaten my animals or sons and I go to crazed mode fast.
That evening I spent hours rounding up my outside cats so I could put out cat food in a live trap.I didn't get the coon but its too hard to catch up my outdoor cats because they come to eat at different times.(Don't leave cat food out at night anymore.)
It was the Internet that told about the marshmallows but it was a new one on me.At least my cats wouldn't go in the trap was why I wanted feedback.
We will get snow and so on anytime and it will bring the varmints out even though I live in town.
When you used your yard trap this summer had you seen coons or did you just keep it out and baited to eliminate for whenever?
I saw a post where someone had a baby monitor in their coop.Sounds great but the ones I've found so far wouldn't work in this Siberia.Got any ideals about that?I wanted to go for wireless.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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Yep, and a can of tuna or dry cat food (which is mess free) works great too.

 

[lishah2000]

They work, but the ants are a problem here with most bait. I use eggs and they work good. No ants and the cats don't bother.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

sounds good...I'll try it tonight. I have not seen any in a while, but I am sure they are there just the same.....although I feel like if I do it and they come, will they have not bothered my chickens and gone in the other direction..and now I have killed a harmless animal...just curious. Trust me, I have done it before and disposed of them. I used to catch and release until I started on this form and found out they will just come back...well that's not going to happen!!!

 

[card5640]

I used the trap because I actually had a coon go into the coop thru the trap door and bring my only silkie outside and kill her, I had seen prints all over my meaties tractor, I wont tell you publicly haw we disposed of them, but I do not need any coons here, l live intown and cant shoot off a gun. I have electricity in my coop and the baby monitor worked great it reached the house about 25 feet away.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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I'm interested in a baby monitor.What kind do you have and does it work okay at below freezing?
You know it's a shame that you can't shoot a gun in town.Know just what you mean.Some ppl stand inside their house to shoot.The neighbors hear "something?" but they see "nothing" and go back in.
I've seen a bunch of dead rats in this area a lot of years ago.

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

I have successfully trapped raccoons with chicken feed, cat food, and turkey parts.

Most recently, I had a raccoon go into my big trap, remove the bait, and then consume it in the run. It then went into the little trap and did nearly the same thing, but got stuck and dragged the trap a few feet.