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Sardines work pretty well. When I trapped raccoons, I used to make a bait out of lightly tainted chunks of carp, mixed with honey, and a little beaver castor. Drove 'em nuts! Used a similar mix for fox, but instead of carp, used groundhog and/or feral cat.
Jeff Where do you find carp taint? Between the pelvic anal fins. Also, colloquially referred to as carp choat.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Hawbackers Wildcat works pretty well.....I can't keep the bastards out of my Cat sets.
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I take a mason jar lid , turn it upside down and wire it down in the middle of the cage.Otherwise they will reach in from the outside. I put peanut butter and grape jelly mix in the lid for their last meal.
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can of tuna always works for me
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I will help revive an old thread by suggesting dry dog food with a splash of liquid smoke in my dog proofs.
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I've found dog proof traps to work much better than live traps. I use dry dog or cat food and drip a little fish oil on it. Next I place a golf ball on top and drip a few drops of fish oil on the ball too. The golf ball helps keep the bait dry from rain or sprinklers and might discourage cats from getting caught.
I've caught 65 coons in my back yard in the last two years and I live in town. Got 32 last summer and 33 the year before. I don't bother to trap from Nov. 1 till March 1 because they aren't as active in my area.
I set six traps in clusters of three per set which helps to get more family members passing through because when one gets caught the others mill around it and get caught too. I dispatch them by bopping them on the head with a pipe while blinding them with a flashlight early in the dark morning. Their carcass gets bagged and put in garage freezer and then on garbage day they go into the dumpster. I imagine they are getting buried at the landfill before they even thaw.
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If the ones that kept visiting Cookie's wall tent this past fall are any indication, anything from a bag of flour to an old copy of Readers Digest should work. I swear they will try anything in camp.
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Hawbackers Wildcat works pretty well.....I can't keep the bastards out of my Cat sets. Still miss ya Ol buddy.
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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I've found dry dogfood with bacon grease mixed in works well, damn skunks like it a lot too.
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Cheap fruit cups to avoid neighbor's cats.
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Sardines always worked for me.
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judman he was the most down to earth man on the fire . i had a lot of pms with him about cat traping and just every day stuff .i miss him to wish i would have meet him in person
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Anything fishy or sweet smelling. Use some sort of visual aid in the trap too. I've used Cotton balls, golf balls. Tin foil...
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judman he was the most down to earth man on the fire . i had a lot of pms with him about cat traping and just every day stuff .i miss him to wish i would have meet him in person Check your PMs 44mc.
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judman he was the most down to earth man on the fire . i had a lot of pms with him about cat traping and just every day stuff .i miss him to wish i would have meet him in person He was a dandy in person, wish there were more folks like him in this world
Ping pong balls for the win. Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Marshmallows. Like crack to them.
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Marshmallows. Like crack to them. And some grape jelly. Cat food and fish oil catches cats better than coons. Cats dont like marshmallows.
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Marshmallows. Like crack to them. And some grape jelly. Cat food and fish oil catches cats better than coons. Cats dont like marshmallows. This cat does!
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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