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If you can get within 100yds I’d use a .223 and 40gr. BT.

You won't trap him, might give him the wrong impression of your intentions. Feed him and he might warm up to you over a little while. They're smarter than you think, usually

I contacted a friend whose the local county wildlife guy (wolf / cougar wrangler ) and he doesnt have a trap to spare right now. If i dont make any progress with the dog tomorrow afternoon, after i do a morning hunt, i intend to call the game department to see if they can help me with a trap.

Kill yourself [bleep]

The above response applies to you too

I'd rather shoot it than let it starve. Have a dart gun and some ketamine?

Heck just call up the fbi.

Easy catch with a foothold, but then what?

Dude, the op don't even own one.

I’ve had great luck using the Haveaheart traps but unfortunately while it’s been effective it’s really only trapped my lab…several times. I set it out for a huge coyote that was trying to get a free chicken dinner out of our hens and within an hour I caught our lab Kenai.

They work great for sweet but spoiled labs that don’t have a care or concern in the world…

Good luck

Well..duh….who doesn’t have a tranq gun and some Ketamine laying around?….😂😂

Its not starving. He ate like a pig today. I have plenty of food for him. And hes posted up at the confluence of 2 creeks with year round running water. Been seeing low single digit temps recently but right now lows of about 20, with only a few more inches of snow forecasted, so i dont think hell freeze. And my neighbor made a tarped shelter with blankets for him. I dont think hell go near it, but i took her down there and set it up for him anyway while he watched us from about 150 yards. Then i put some food in and around it. My biggest concern, now that i know hes not going to starve, is lions, wolves, coyotes.

I own several. And am waiting on a custom barrel for another. You can also follow my advice to deflave

Okay thats pretty damn funny

Right now there's a local woman who's pug puppy escaped out of her house on Thanksgiving day. She saw the dog in a field by a school the next day, she called the dog's name and it took off running away from her and kept going out of sight. A few days later it was seen in a park by a hospital, got pushed out of that area and appeared at the site of a torn down foundry about two miles from the park a couple of days later. Again she saw the dog on a hill top, called the dog's name and she ran away and out of sight. The area is surrounded by a high fence, theres pools of water in that area that are contaminated with foundry chemicals. People flooded the area trying to find the dog, someone thought they found a garage where they thought the dog was holding up. Do gooders started leaving hamburgers laying around to feed the dog, the owner was working with a professional dog trapper trying to catch her dog. It appears the dog vacated the area to get away from the people trying to find her. She hasn't been seen for three days now.

And btw, in case you were wondering, the bleeped out word rhymes with maggot

Hey fuqkstick, you can eat the dog by shooting him first, it ain't necessary to trap him. I guess you just don't wanna waste any meat.

Cokksucker will be asking questions about trapping sheep and goats in his next thread.

When I was an ACO in the 1990s, there were occasions when there were dogs we could not catch.

We had a large cage trap. Some dogs only took a day or two to trap, others took weeks and others were never trapped.

You want a very palatable food, usually canned. Have a dish of water and a blanket is not a bad idea.

If the dog is really skittish, you may want to propp the door
open for a couple of days so the dog adjusts to the trap as any noise or movement may spook them. Once the dog is comfortable eating in the trap, set the trap so the door will close.

Good luck, not every dog can be trapped.