Anybody Live trap?????

[ratamahatta]

I've got a live trap, and was wondering if anybody else sets one..Here's a few pics of what I've caught the past week...

the mandatory knife shot!!!!!

I also caught a rabbit, but didn't have my camera with me that day....

 

[dboles]

Nice we dont have possums or raccoons here.Heard both are good eating or do you bother.Do you also send the hides in?
Dan'l

 

[ratamahatta]

nah...I catch & release....my wife has eaten groundhog but neither of these two!!!!!!!

 

[DWK2]

I use a Have-a-Heart in the largest size. Got everything from raccoons down to rats and squirrels.

DancesWithKnives

 

[cmdionne]

Catch and release live trapping? To each his or her own I suppose.

To paraphrase the late Mitch Hedberg "So you don't want to eat the furry ground mammals, you just want to make them late for something".

Maybe you could get a trail cam and put it low to the ground?

 

[ratamahatta]

Catch and release live trapping? To each his or her own I suppose.

To paraphrase the late Mitch Hedberg "So you don't want to eat the furry ground mammals, you just want to make them late for something".

Maybe you could get a trail cam and put it low to the ground?

haha....I try to see if I can catch the same one more than once......it's all fun & games

 

[August West]

haha....I try to see if I can catch the same one more than once......it's all fun & games

Long as you keep putting food in the trap they will keep getting in it, I had a few coons that I could almost call up to feed. I lived in a run down cabin in Fontana NC and had a skunk that would bang the screen door for me to feed him, when I opened it he would go to his bowl and wait on me. Before anyone says anything, yes, I know the dangers of feeding wildlife. Chris

 

[ratamahatta]

Long as you keep putting food in the trap they will keep getting in it, I had a few coons that I could almost call up to feed. I lived in a run down cabin in Fontana NC and had a skunk that would bang the screen door for me to feed him, when I opened it he would go to his bowl and wait on me. Before anyone says anything, yes, I know the dangers of feeding wildlife. Chris

hahaha...........that's great.....

 

[August West]

Nice we dont have possums or raccoons here.Heard both are good eating or do you bother.Do you also send the hides in?
Dan'l

I eat raccoons and they are very good, one of my favorite game animals as a matter of fact.

I would not eat a possum unless I was starving. :barf::barf: I do not eat carrion eaters. Chris

 

[JRB]

It's all fun and games until someone gets sprayed by a skunk!

 

[ratamahatta]

It's all fun and games until someone gets sprayed by a skunk!

that's what they make a .22 lr for, I was watching a show with the wife about skunks and they said to mix peroxide, baking soda, and washing detergent to neutralize the smell....

 

[August West]

that's what they make a .22 lr for, I was watching a show with the wife about skunks and they said to mix peroxide, baking soda, and washing detergent to neutralize the smell....

You shoot him and he will spray for sure, there is only one way I know of to kill a skunk without him spraying and it is pretty cruel.

I haven't found anything, or mixture of anything, that will kill skunk spray, yes my wife has made me sleep in the garage before. Chris

 

[remmmm]

I vote kill 'em all when it comes to coons and opossums. Too many of those damn things running around being a nuisance.

 

[JRB]

that's what they make a .22 lr for, I was watching a show with the wife about skunks and they said to mix peroxide, baking soda, and washing detergent to neutralize the smell....

My wife got sprayed by a skunk a few years ago. Let me tell you, we tried every piece of advice that we've ever heard (and some we just made up) to get her to smell less gag inducing. None of them worked very well. They all took away a bit of the odor but she still stank like something from the pits of hell. I think it took two full days before I could approach her without wanting to hurl. Our dog got the worst of it. She whimpered for almost a week straight.

 

[August West]

My wife got sprayed by a skunk a few years ago. Let me tell you, we tried every piece of advice that we've ever heard (and some we just made up) to get her to smell less gag inducing. None of them worked very well. They all took away a bit of the odor but she still stank like something from the pits of hell. I think it took two full days before I could approach her without wanting to hurl.

Yep, my experience too. Chris

 

[fujita yuji]

I regularly do.
I've got eleven squirrels this year.

 

[Mistwalker]

We used box traps a lot when I was a kid. What you catch is greatly dependant on the bait. Apples make good rabbit bait.

Nice we dont have possums or raccoons here.Heard both are good eating or do you bother.Do you also send the hides in?
Dan'l

Coon is great barbecued but it will be a life and death situation before I'll try possum again :barf: ...I like crickets and worms better.

 

[Mistwalker]

I regularly do.
I've got eleven squirrels this year.

Got any pics of the whole trap?

 

[fujita yuji]

This trap was originally developed for rats but works fine for squirrels.
The hook shaped wire hangs bates and the trigger.
The loop wire above the roof (not the funnel shaped) is hooked on the trigger
and keeps the door open.

The bate is a pair of peanuts in a shell with some sunflower seeds.

wish this could help you, Brian.

 

[Mistwalker]

Thanks Fujita, I really like that. I'm going to have to make one of my own!