What to use to catch a COON in a live trap?

[Whatsnottoluvaboutchicken]

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I have heard everything from Oreo cookies to expensive jelly jams. And prolly I like the sardines bait the best. Anyone else have any good ideas?

A friend (who lives in a neighborhood near a forrest preserve) just told me they simply put an egg into the trap each night and caught 32 racoons last summer. No kidding.

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[Paganbird]

Leftovers.
We've caught a bunch of racoons by scraping the pot & putting whats-left-from-dinner on a paper plate in the trap.
I tried canned cat food & caught a couple, but I also caught a cat. Since the leftovers - I've caught coons & possum, but no cats.
I even caught a crow.

 

[lildinkem]

I heard IF the egg is rotten it is even better to catch them. I just caught a possum. A little guy, did not kill him, went to the RR tracks about 5 miles away and turned him loose there. He has to over thru 8 lanes of Highway 65 and 465 traffic to get back here. He is happy to be alive and lots of room on those tracks to fit in.

 

[Whispering Winds]

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I didn't read all the posts, but I used dry cat food. Worked great; they LOVE it.

 

[mmtillman]

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good idea...gonna cover my trap tonight!!

 

[pascopol]

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Hungry coon will go for anything.

I use a tiny slice of pepperoni. Works every time.
Pepperoni adventage is, you do not need to change bait every day if the coon does not show up next night, cause it will not spoil and fall apart overnight like soft kind of bait (sardines or else).

Small piece of bread should work on a coon too, but may not work on other strictly meat eating predators.

 

[lildinkem]

Skunks kill chickens too. Bring on the Tuna.

 

[pascopol]

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If your coons are so spoiled and fussy they'll only go for tuna, they'd

probably not touch your chicken. LOL

 

[Stonerowfarm]

Tried to catch our coon, first night used a can of tuna and caught a possum. Second and third nights used a raisen bagel smeared with peanut butter and she managed to take it through the trap. Fourth night - success - sprinkled dry cat food at the end of the trap and catch her.

 

[montyhp]

OK so I lost a chicken friday night. I am pretty sure it was a skunk because of the smell, although the bird was eviscerated like a racoon might do. Saturday I baited a trap with the dead chicken and caught a skunk. I figured skunks don't live alone so I baited the trap with peanutbutter on bread last night and caught a racoon. Don't know what I will catch tonight, but we have rabies in the area (rabid skunk found about a mile away), so whatever it is, it gets a .22 LR before I get near the trap.

Montyhp