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[Peep_Show]

Must be some tasty bait!

 

[Wisher1000]

I put the remains of the pullet that was killed yesterday in the back of a live trap and set it last night. DH put up a game cam to see the action. This morning, the trap was sprung and empty. No varmint, and the carcass was gone. Dh will check the camera later this morning to see what it was.

 

[Peep_Show]

Interesting. Keep us posted.

We had a leftover TomCat sticky trap that we baited with peanut butter and put in the woodpile where we thought rodents might be. In the morning there was no mouse and it was GONE. I wonder what kind of critter is wandering around with all that glue and plastic stuck to its face.

 

[Wisher1000]

Interesting. Keep us posted.

We had a leftover TomCat sticky trap that we baited with peanut butter and put in the woodpile where we thought rodents might be. In the morning there was no mouse and it was GONE. I wonder what kind of critter is wandering around with all that glue and plastic stuck to its face.

I laughed out loud at the thought of this! Then, an idea came to me. Wouldn't this encourage people to keep their cats at home?

Sorry, cat people, but I keep my dog from wandering uninvited into other's yards, garages, porches, gardens, and certainly off the tops of their cars. I would like the same courtesy.

 

[chickadoodles]

Last night's picture. This was at 11:13 PM. At about 8 I got a picture of a mink but it's so small and on the right of the field of view it's hard to see. The white pipe behind the coon in the last picture is the mink trap.
Both ignored the trap and nothing in the live trap either.

Wow you need a larger live trap baited!

 

[chickadoodles]

Wow I'm sorry everyone is having predator problems! I hope y'all get em good once and for all!

 

[ronott1]

Interesting. Keep us posted.

We had a leftover TomCat sticky trap that we baited with peanut butter and put in the woodpile where we thought rodents might be. In the morning there was no mouse and it was GONE. I wonder what kind of critter is wandering around with all that glue and plastic stuck to its face.

Even for rats, the trap needs to be secured with a wire or they will walk away with it.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Aww, that's a cute raccoon. Which I can safely say from thousands of kilometers away. Probably not a very welcome visitor though. He looks good, nice and fat and good looking fur. You'll get a nice hat out of him.

Every time I think about the hat, the Daniel Boone theme song from my youth comes to mind. Now it will be stuck there all day. Just for that, here ya go.

Maybe it will be stuck in your mind too.

I'll set the dog proof raccoon leg traps tonight. Trying to thin the herd before winter. Daniel Boone's cap here I come.

I put the remains of the pullet that was killed yesterday in the back of a live trap and set it last night. DH put up a game cam to see the action. This morning, the trap was sprung and empty. No varmint, and the carcass was gone. Dh will check the camera later this morning to see what it was.

I think a big coon can go into a live trap, keep their butt out to prevent the door from closing, grab the bait and escape.
That's the very reason I bit the bullet and invested in the game cam. One can only speculate what happened without it.
A few weeks ago I set up a mink trap - 4" PVC pipe filled with fresh mouse feces and a #110 conibear at each end. Like a big dummy, I didn't set up the game cam and I didn't tie down the traps. I figured if a mink went in, it would be dead. Well, the next morning one of the traps was gone and the other one tripped. It could have been a raccoon or snake or really anything. No camera evidence.
These are the most effective against coons. http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/dog-proof-raccoon-traps.html
I like the brown one best. The first one I bought was bare metal and really rusts. With the bare metal one, you have to boil it to get the oil off so the vermin won't be deterred.

Interesting. Keep us posted.

We had a leftover TomCat sticky trap that we baited with peanut butter and put in the woodpile where we thought rodents might be. In the morning there was no mouse and it was GONE. I wonder what kind of critter is wandering around with all that glue and plastic stuck to its face.

Cat, possum, raccoon, weasel, etc..

I laughed out loud at the thought of this! Then, an idea came to me. Wouldn't this encourage people to keep their cats at home?

Sorry, cat people, but I keep my dog from wandering uninvited into other's yards, garages, porches, gardens, and certainly off the tops of their cars. I would like the same courtesy.

I don't think it would encourage cat people to keep them at home. They know cats are vulnerable to dogs, foxes and cars yet let them roam anyway.

I've owned cats and my son has one at our house now. I like cats, indoors.

And how do cats get a free pass when it comes to leash laws?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Wow I'm sorry everyone is having predator problems! I hope y'all get em good once and for all!

It will never be once and for all. Remove some and others will fill the void.
If you build it, they will come. Field of dreams and chicken coops.
One can thin the herd though. Cars are a big help around here.

 

[hennible]

I've owned cats and my son has one at our house now. I like cats, indoors.

And how do cats get a free pass when it comes to leash laws?

I think it's the same reason that you can own as many as you want without any sort of licensing. Something to do with a decree by Queen Victoria the first that has connections to the black plague