predator trapping advice

[EeyoreD]

I've been having a problem also - I'm afraid to catch the neighbors cat if I use cat food - I've caught 1 raccoon, and1 possum. But now what ever it is came into my barn, in between my horses and
squeezed through an arrea about 3" x 1" and killed 2 babies that I had in a cage and tried to pull then through the wire. Today it got 2 more babies...

What kind of traps are you using?

 

[patman75]

This.

I had a Duke trap tethered to a corkscrew dog tie out. Both the trap and the corkscrew are gone. No digging, he just pulled it out. (and I check the sturdiness of the tie out each time I bait/set.)

Somewhere out there is a monster coon with a metal pegleg trailing a corkscrew tie out...

I use 18 inch rebar stakes for my Duke Dog Proof Raccoon traps. I have never had one pull out a stake.

 

[Chicken Chickita]

Okay, so my DH is happy to kill any raccoon I trap. He plans to get a 22 this week. We still have about 50 chickens left and would like for it to stay that way.

 

[Gadsden]

Okay, so my DH is happy to kill any raccoon I trap. He plans to get a 22 this week. We still have about 50 chickens left and would like for it to stay that way.

Ruger 10/22 is the best all around 22. LOTS of accessories, and very reliable!

 

[Gargoyle]

I use 18 inch rebar stakes for my Duke Dog Proof Raccoon traps. I have never had one pull out a stake.

I've heard good things about those. From what I've read they are much more reliable and easier to use than havahart live traps.

 

[aprophet]

Nope, the chicken last night was mostly missing. It had been attacked inside the coop. The other chickens were missing. I followed a trail of feathers into the woods. I was able to locate parts of the body once but not the other two times. We are surrounded by woods. My husband has reinforced the coop and the run. I still want to trap it though.

kina sounds like multiple preds when you are finding parts sound s like coon when you do not find them sounds more like K-9's

 

[Jmanvanatta]

darin367 that is a horrable and crule way to kill any living creature. And you should not kill it it is doing what its instinct tells it too. VERMIN!!!!!! They have lived here so long before us we are the vermin if anything. Now i dont mean to be rude put your entire post was wrong.

 

[Jmanvanatta]

I forgot if you catch them then call the Fish and Game and ask if there are any areas you can release it and if not then kill it in the most HUMAIN way posable.

 

[Gargoyle]

They have lived here so long before us we are the vermin if anything. Now i dont mean to be rude put your entire post was wrong.

The raccoon population now is entirely different from that of 100 years ago. They have evolved, morphed learned into something entirely different. This is especially true in urban areas. If you took the contemporary urban raccoon and relocated them to a rural situation it would be no different from taking a city kid and dropping him naked in the forest- they are not equipped for it. In addition, there has been an incredible population explosion and geographic spread of raccoons into areas where they never lived before. North American raccoons are now huge infestations in places from Germany to Japan, and causing massive disruption and damage.

 

[dainerra]

I forgot if you catch them then call the Fish and Game and ask if there are any areas you can release it and if not then kill it in the most HUMAIN way posable.

It is illegal in almost every state in the US to release wildlife. The few areas that allow it require you to be a licensed trapper with the state. Releasing an animal into a new area is simply sentencing it to a slow death by starvation. Why? Because if that new area is a good place for a coon to live, there are already coons there! The newcomer will either have to fight and drive away one of the resident animals (possibly dieing in the process) or move on until it finds another place where there are no coons. Also, coons spread rabies, roundworms, and distemper. Not to mention the fleas/ticks and other parasites. There was a study done on raccoons that found that most die within 2 weeks of being relocated.