Help with pesky raccoons

Hey there porkbilly, I'm no dog expert or pro 'coon hunter, but here's my $0.02.

Anytime we've set traps for 'coons in my area, they either eat the bait without tripping anything, or when it's poisened they avoid it.

I picked up a little mutt puppy at the pound last summer. His mother was a Border Collie, looks like his dad must have been a Walker Hound. He's about 18" at the shoulder, nose to tail he's probably 30". Little sucker isn't that big, but he weighs 50lbs and thinks he's a lap dog! He's got a nice short, slick coat that doesn't shed much, and dirt/water doesn't stick long at all. He's smarter than a whip too, and just as fast. Pretty quite for the most part, except when something that he doesn't know is around. Doesn't bray though.

When he was about 8 months old we heard this braying call. Turned out to be the pup, and he had tree'd a porcupine! Never heard that sound out of him before. About three weeks later, he came wandering up with a face full of quills. Turned out he found a corpse (most likely something got the same porcupine), and tried to roll in it as dogs do. It was painful, and he squirmed, but that pup never cried, whimpered, nor pissed himself while we pulled out the quills.

He's got eyes, ears, and a nose that are razor sharp. He hears something or see's it, he is froze looking right at it. Loves to trail things with his nose too. Anyways I've been flapping my jaw (or tapping my keys) long enough. My point is, I would have been real smart to try and get him trained as a hunting dog, and for my next dog I would look at a Walker Hound or cross.
 
Do a search on YouTube using "dog proof coon trap", "pcsoutdoors", and "havahart 1079".

Traps:

Sterling Grizz (USA made)
Coon Dagger (USA made)
Z Trap Dog Proof (China)
Duke DP (Korea??)

Havahart 1079
Tomahawk 108SS
Freedom Brand Professional Series 30" long live trap
 
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