RIP Lady Buffington.. any raccoon-tapping advice?

[MSDeb]

We use peanut butter, a blob of it in a sardine can, use a plastic zip tie to secure it in the trap. Peanut butter doesn't lure in your cats. When we used sardines we kept catching our big ole tom cat. Apparently he doesn't mind napping in a cage if he gets a whole can of sardines to himself.

Head shot. Never relocate.

 

[zookeeper15133]

I don't open the sardines. Just crack the seal on the can so the smell can get out.

 

[bigdawg]

bigger trap the better. if its a big one it wont go into a samll trap. i used the dead chickens has bait. no coon. two nights later i put in a small can of moist cat food. presto a very large male coon. my nieghbor took him 30 miles away let it loose in a corn field and then let the coon dogs have at it.

 

[Cockadoodledon't]

Right on the money

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[feliciamckee]

We have trapped 15 since May. There is never only one coon! I agree with some of the other posters...bigger and sturdier traps. Last week we caught two at the same time. Also, NEVER relocate. Is that what your neighbor is doing? That doesn't solve the problem and they will come back anyway and continue to reproduce. Yes, shooting them works great, but I don't have the stomach for it. We take ours to the animal shelter and they put them to sleep. Animal control will not come to pick them up of course, but we only live 5 mn. away. We have gotten to know the girls that work in there very well!

 

[no1hilbily]

relocating raccoons is illegal in Indiana unless ame county as caught on private property
with permission

 

[JD4570]

Never relocate, all it does is put the problem on someone else. I used to think the critters were cute and didn't have the stomach to shoot them, but after having the image of 11 of my girls massacred burned into my memory I don't think twice.

They are persistent and merciless. One to head, that the sure cure!

 

[aprophet]

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this and a lot of time where they are relocated to someone there has to trap and dispatch them ,most get killed by other animals competing for territory and food

 

[bakerjw]

Spend the extra money and get a good trap. It looks like that Harbor Freight trap is a piece of junk. I have a Hav-a-heart (odd name for a hold the raccoon in one place long enough to shoot it in the head box) and still had a raccoon manage to tear apart one end of it to escape.

When it comes to raccoons I show no mercy. With them it is SSB.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

We started having trouble with skunks, and it's pretty hard to kill one of those without releasing his stink. My husband finally figured out how to do a spine shot that would paralyze them first so they wouldn't release when the died. I decided that we just spend the money to make a solid run, wrapped in hardware cloth, within our larger run. That seems to have taken care of the problem.

To the person that was worried about daytime attacks, raccoons are nocturnal. The hawks are my daytime worry, at least until they're about 4 months. I lost one of my 2 month olds last week to one even though my rooster is pretty good at warning them and they run for cover.